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The Framework and the Veils
v. 20. And he made boards (planks) for the Tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up, strong and durable.
v. 21. The length of a board was ten cubits and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
v. 22. One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another. Thus did he make for all the boards of the Tabernacle.
v. 23. And he made boards for the Tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward;
v. 24. 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. The tenons, fitting exactly in the sockets of the bases, held the planks upright.
v. 25. And for the other side of the Tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
v. 26. and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.
v. 27. And for the sides of the Tabernacle westward he made six boards, of the regular width.
v. 28. And two boards made he for the corners of the Tabernacle in the two sides, the planks on the northwest and southwest corners, respectively, being apparently only one half cubit in width, as they were dovetailed to the first planks on the north and the south side to form a solid corner.
v. 29. And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring. Thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
v. 30. And there were eight boards all told, on the west side; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
v. 31. And he made bars of shittim wood, cross-bars of acacia wood to lock the planks in place: five for the boards of the one side of the Tabernacle,
v. 32. and five bars for the boards of the other side of the Tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the Tabernacle for the sides westward.
v. 33. And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other, thus making the walls solid.
v. 34. And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. Cf Exo_26:15-30.
v. 35. And he made a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim made he it of cunning work, the four kinds of thread woven into a damask cloth with figures of cherubim.
v. 36. And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, for the entrance of the Most Holy Place, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks, to which the curtain was fastened, were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver, heavy bases to hold the pillars upright.
v. 37. And he made an hanging for the Tabernacle door, the door leading to the Holy Place, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework, woven in geometrical figures.
v. 38. And the five pillars of it with their hooks, from which this outer screen was suspended; and he overlaid their chapiters, their heads, or capitals, and their fillets, the rods connecting them, with gold; but their five sockets were of brass, of less costly metal than those of the inner curtain. Cf Exo_26:31-37. Thus the directions of the Lord, as given to Moses, were followed with the most painstaking exactness, as the Lord had commanded Moses.