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Exd 36:21 — The length of a board [was] ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

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The length		Each of these boards, taking the cubit at nearly twenty-two inches, was about eighteen feet long, and two feet nine inches broad. As these boards are said to be standing up (Exd 36:20,) their length was consequently the height of the tabernacle; and as the two sides were composed of twenty of these, standing up (Exd 36:23, 25,) and the west end of six, with two boards to project at the corners, (Exd 36:27, 28,) the tabernacle must therefore, have been thirty cubits, or fifty-five feet long, and about ten cubits, or eighteen feet broad. These boards were fastened at the bottom by two tenons in each board, which fitted into two mortices in the foundation, at the top by links or hasps, and on the sides by five wooden bars, which ran through rings or staples in each of the boards. The boards and bars were all overlaid with gold; and their rings for the staves, and their hasps at top, were of the same metal. The foundation on which they stood consisted of about ninety-six solid blocks of silver, two under each boa

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	Exd 36:20	And he made boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood, standing up.
	Exd 36:23	And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
	Exd 36:25	And for the other side of the tabernacle, [which is] toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
	Exd 36:27	And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
	Exd 36:28	And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

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Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 36:21," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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