Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Exodus 26:15 - 26:30

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Exodus 26:15 - 26:30


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The framework of the Tabernacle

v. 15. And thou shalt make boards for the Tabernacle of shittim wood standing up,
planks of acacia wood that were durable, such as could stand up under the strain of the wind and the frequent handling.

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

v. 17. Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another,
each set of tenons, or small projections, fitting exactly into the corresponding sockets in the base below; thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the Tabernacle.

v. 18. And thou shalt make the boards for the Tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward,
the entire length of the Tabernacle thus being thirty cubits.

v. 19. And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards,
these silver feet, or bases, serving to hold the planks upright: two sockets under one board for his two tenons and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

v. 20. And for the second side of the Tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards;


v. 21. and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board,
the north and the south wall of the Tabernacle thus being constructed in exactly the same manner.

v. 22. And for the sides of the Tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards,
for the wall proper.

v. 23. And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the Tabernacle in the two sides,
in such a way as to form a right angle.

v. 24. And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring,
the two planks being dovetailed, or mortised, together at right angles. Thus shall it be for them both, in this way they should be constructed; they shall be for the two corners, forming the two rear corners.

v. 25. And they shall be eight boards
in the west wall, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets: two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.

v. 26. And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood,
cross-bars extending along the walls of the Tabernacle: five for the boards of the one side of the Tabernacle,

v. 27. and five bars for the boards of the other side of the Tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the Tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
So the north, the south, and the west wall were each to have five rows of connecting bars, which evidently were passed, through large rings.

v. 28. And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end,
passing through the entire length of the framework to give solidity to the structure.

v. 29. And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

v. 30. And thou shalt rear up the Tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was showed thee in the mount.
This setting up of the Tabernacle included not only an exact copying of the model which Moses had seen on the mountain, but the tent was to agree also with the object and with the significance of the dwelling as the home of God in the midst of His people. This rectangular building, thirty cubits long, ten cubits wide, and ten cubits high, was the sanctuary of Israel for more than four hundred years, and serves. as the type of the more perfect tabernacle of heaven, into which Jesus has entered as our Mediator, Heb_9:6-10.