Exodus 26:16

_AND THOU SHALT MAKE BOARDS FOR THE TABERNACLE OF SHITTIM WOOD STANDING UP._ Boards ... of shittim wood standing up. These boards, made of acacia wood (see the note at Exodus 25:15), covered with gold, were to be formed each ten cubits in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth [Nothing is said as to thickness, which Lightfoot ('Gleanings from Exodus') declares, on the authority of rabbinical tradition, to have been nine inches.] Neither the acacia Seyal nor the acacia Nilotica could have furnished single planks for boards of the prescribed dimensions, though, as has been suggested, the acacia Serissa of Cairo might have done so, supposing it to have formerly grown in the desert of Sinai. But it is not absolutely necessary to suppose that each х_ QERESH_ (H7175)] board consisted of a single plank, since the word is used col

15-30 The sockets of silver each weighed about 115 pounds; they were placed in rows on the ground. In every pair of these sockets, a strong board of shittim-wood, covered with plates of gold, was fitted by mortises and tenons. Thus walls were formed for the two sides, and for the west end. The wall was further held together by bars, which passed through rings of gold. Over this the curtains were spread. Though movable, it was strong and firm. The materials were very costly. In all this it was a type of the church of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner-stone, Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 2:21....

Verse Exodus 26:16. _TEN CUBITS_ SHALL BE _THE LENGTH OF A BOARD_] Each of these boards or planks was about _five_ yards and _two_ feet and a half long, and _thirty-two_ inches broad; and as they are said to be _standing up_, this was the HEIGHT of the tabernacle. The length being _thirty_ cubits, _twenty_ boards, _one_ cubit and a _half_ broad each, make about _seventeen_ yards and a _half_, and the BREADTH was about _five_ yards....

(Compare Exodus 36:8.) The tabernacle was to comprise three main parts, the tabernacle Exodus 26:1, more strictly so-called, its tent Exodus 26:7, and its covering Exodus 26:14 (Compare Exodus 35:11; Exodus 39:33; Exodus 40:19, Exodus 40:34;...

EXPOSITION EXODUS 26:1 THE TABERNACLE. The sacred furniture which the tabernacle was to contain having been described, with the exception of the "altar of incense" the description of which is reserved for Exodus 30:1. (Exodus 30:1)-directions were next given for the sacred structure itself. This was to consist of three main things— 1. A quadrangular enclosure thirty cubits long by ten broad, open at one end, and on the other three sides enclosed by boards of acacia-wood overlaid with gold—called the _mishkan_, or "the dwelling-place," in our version usually translated "tabernacle." 2....

TEN CUBITS SHALL BE THE LENGTH OF A BOARD,.... Or five yards, according to the common cubit: AND A CUBIT AND A HALF SHALL BE THE BREADTH OF ONE BOARD; or three quarters of a yard; and from hence we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computation of a cubit, it was but five yards high and fifteen long, since there were but twenty boards on each side, Exodus 26:18, but if three inches are added to each cubit, it will make its measures considerably larger: Josephus q says the boards were four fingers thick: according to Bishop Cumberland the boards of the tabernacle, containing fifteen Jewish square cubits, were very near fifty English square feet in their length and breadth. q Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 3....

CHAPTER 26 THE TABERNACLE AND ITS CONSTRUCTION _ 1. The curtains (Exodus 26:1)_ 2. The coverings (Exodus 26:7) 3. The boards (Exodus 26:15) 4. The vail (Exodus 26:31) 5. The hangings for the door (Exodus 26:36) While the tabernacle is a type of the heavenly places (Hebrews 9:23) it is also a type of Christ, who tabernacled among men. The wonderful foreshadowings we find here down to the minutest details is an evidence of in

EXODUS 26. P. THE DWELLING. This chapter deals with the tent, or tabernacle proper, describing in succession the four thicknesses of different materials which were to make its covering (Exodus 26:1. _cf._ Exodus 36:8); the framework that should support them (Exodus 26:15; cf. Exodus 36:20); the inner partition or veil (Exodus 26:31; cf. Exodus 36:35 f.) and the contents of the interior ...

The _wooden framework_of the Dwelling....

THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 26 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cher-u-bim the work of the skilful workman shalt thou make them. (2) The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure. (3) Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and _the other_ five curtains shall be coupled one to another. (4) And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. (5) Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling; the loops shall be opposite one to another. (6) And thou shal...