17Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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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