And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
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Gill's Exposition
And they shall be coupled together beneath,.... At the bottom of the boards or planks:
and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring at the top of the boards there was a…
(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
westward lit. sea - ward. Sea(i.e. the Medit. sea) is in Heb. the regular word for -west"; and the usage, like that of négebin v.18 in the sense of -south," could only have arisen after Israel had…