- Bible
- Exodus
- Chapter 26
- Verse 17
Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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Gill's Exposition
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,.... As in the manner before described, so in number as follows:
twenty boards on the south side southward; which being a cubit and a half broad,…
(Compare Exo. 36:8-33.) The tabernacle was to comprise three main parts, the tabernacle Exo 26:1-6, more strictly so-called, its tent Exo 26:7-13, and its covering Exo 26:14 (Compare Exo 35:11; Exo…
Very particular directions are here given about the boards of the tabernacle, which were to bear up the curtains, as the stakes of a tent which had need to be strong, Isa 54:2. These boards had tenons…
Cambridge Bible
tenons lit. hands, used fig. of supports: cf. 1Ki 7:32-33 (EVV. axletrees; rather, diagonal staysunder the body of the laver, holding the axles in their places), 35 (supportsof the basin at the top),…