Exodus - 26:16



16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.

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Explanation and meaning of Exodus 26:16.

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Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
Let every one of them be ten cubits in length, and in breadth on cubit and a half.
Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.
Of these, each shall have ten cubits in length, and in width, one and one half.
Decem cubitorum longitudo tabulae: cubiti vero et dimidii latitudo tabulae unius.

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Historical Commentaries

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The board would therefore be about 15 ft. long, and 27 in. broad.

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.

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.

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