John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 27:12
And for the breadth of the court, on the west side ,.... On the west end, the upper end of the court, near to which reached the holy of holies: shall be hangings of fifty cubits : or twenty five yards and more, so that the court was but half as broad as it was long: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten ; which was a number proportionate to the hangings, and stood at an equal distance from each other, as the pillars for the sides, at five cubits, or two yards and a half, as... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 27:9-19
Before the tabernacle there was to be a court or yard, enclosed with hangings of the finest linen that was used for tents. This court, according to the common computation of cubits, was fifty yards long, and twenty-five broad. Pillars were set up at convenient distances, in sockets of brass, the pillars filleted with silver, and silver tenter-hooks in them, on which the linen hangings were fastened: the hanging which served for the gate was finer than the rest, Exod. 27:16. This court was a... read more