15And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
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And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up. …
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. …
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. …
And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-30)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 which fell into the mortises that were made for them in silver bases. God took care to have every thing strong, as well as fine, in his tabernacle. Curtains without boards would have been shaken by…
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