The boards, as they are here called, are not solid, as then they would have been very heavy, and the cherubim embroidered upon the inner covering would not have been visible at all. It is best, with Professor Kennedy, to take them to be open frames consisting of two uprights connected with cross rails. These frames are 10 cubits in height and 1½ in width, and are kept upright by being let down with tenons and mortises into sockets (Exodus 26:19), which rest side by side upon the ground, and form a continuous base or plinth all round. Rigidity is secured by means of long bars running round the structure (Exodus 26:26). 18. The length of the side being 30 cubits, twenty frames are required for each side.

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