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Exodus 36:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. "
Exodus 36:23
Verse in Context
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21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
22 Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
23 He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
24 He made 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.
25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards
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Exodus 36:1
"“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has commanded.”"
Exodus 36:2
"Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it."
Exodus 36:3
"They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning."
Exodus 36:4
"All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did."
Exodus 36:5
"They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make.”"
Exodus 36:6
"Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing."
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