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Exodus 26:15
15Use acacia wood to make boards to hold up the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
- New International Version (NIV)“Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“And for the tabernacle you shall make the boards of acacia wood, standing upright.
Context of Exodus 26:15
13The curtains of the tent will be half a metre longer on both sides. The extra material will hang over each side of the tabernacle to cover it completely. 14Use red leather from sheep's skins to cover the tent. Then use another kind of good leather to cover the red leather. Use acacia wood to make boards to hold up the tabernacle. 16Each board must be 4 metres high and 65 centimetres wide. 17Make two wooden pegs on each board, beside each other. Make all the boards of the tabernacle like this.
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וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ אֶת־הַקְּרָשִׁ֖ים לַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן עֲצֵ֥י שִׁטִּ֖ים עֹמְדִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Exodus 26:15
- Exodus 26:18Make 20 boards for the south side of the tabernacle.
- Exodus 36:20They used acacia wood to make the boards that would hold up the tabernacle.
- Exodus 40:17So they put up the tabernacle on the first day of the first month. It was in the second year after they had left Egypt.
- Numbers 4:31This is the work of the men in Merari's clan. They must carry the wood parts that hold the Tent of Meeting, and its poles. They must carry its pillars and its bases.
- Ephesians 2:20You are like a house that God is building for himself. God's apostles and his prophets are like the foundation under the house. Jesus Christ is like the most important stone in the house.
- Exodus 25:5red leather from sheep's skins and other good leather; wood from acacia trees;
Commentaries on Exodus 26:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Thou shalt make boards - These formed what might be called the walls of the tabernacle, and were made of shittim wood, the acacia Nilotica, which Dr. Shaw says grows here in abundance. To have worked the acacia into these boards or planks, the Israelites must have had sawyers, joiners, etc., among them; but how they got the tools is a question. But as the Israelites were the general workmen of Egypt, and were brought up to every kind of trade for the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-37Verses 1-37 (Compare Exodus 26:1-6, more strictly so-called, its tent Exodus 26:7-13, and its covering Exodus 26:14 (Compare Exodus 35:11; Exodus 39:33-34; Exodus 40:19, Exodus 40:34; Numbers 3:25, etc.). These parts are very clearly distinguished in the Hebrew, but they are confounded in many places of the English Version (see Exodus 26:7, Exodus 26:9, etc.). The tabernacle itself was to consist of curtains of fine linen woven with colored figures of…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-30Verses 15-30 The sockets of silver each weighed about 115 pounds; they were placed in rows on the ground. In every pair of these sockets, a strong board of shittim-wood, covered with plates of gold, was fitted by mortises and tenons. Thus walls were formed for the two sides, and for the west end. The wall was further held together by bars, which passed through rings of gold. Over this the curtains were spread. Though movable, it was strong and firm. The…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15acacia wood: This is a hard wood found in the region of Sinai.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-3015-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave it solidity and compactness, it was evidently a more…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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