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Exodus 26:17 — Meaning and Application
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" Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. "
Exodus 26:17
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And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
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Exodus 26:1
"Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make"
Exodus 26:2
"The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure."
Exodus 26:3
"The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another."
Exodus 26:4
"And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second."
Exodus 26:5
"Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another."
Exodus 26:6
"And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle."
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