And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
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Gill's Exposition
And for the second side of the tabernacle the north side,.... The direction of the tabernacle was east and west; at the east end was the entrance into the holy place, and at the west end the holy of…
(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
sockets bases (Eze 41:22 RVm.), or pedestals (cf. Job 38:6 -foundations"; Son 5:15 supporting pillars), i.e. solid blocks of silver acc. to Exo 38:27 weighing a talent (96 lbs.) each resting on the…
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