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Exodus 26:18 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward. "
Exodus 26:18
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16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.
17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
18 You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward.
19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
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Exodus 26:1
"“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman."
Exodus 26:2
"The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure."
Exodus 26:3
"Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another."
Exodus 26:4
"You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and you shall do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling."
Exodus 26:5
"You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one another."
Exodus 26:6
"You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit."
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