Exodus 26:13-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 26:7-14

Moses is here ordered to make a double covering for the tabernacle, that it might not rain in, and that the beauty of those fine curtains might not be damaged. 1. There was to be a covering of hair camlet curtains, which were somewhat larger every way than the inner curtains, because they were to enclose them, and probably were stretched out at some little distance from them, Exod. 26:7 These were coupled together with brass clasps. The stuff being less valuable, the tacks were so; but the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 26:15-30

Very particular directions are here given about the boards of the tabernacle, which were to bear up the curtains, as the stakes of a tent which had need to be strong, Isa. 54:2. These boards had tenons which fell into the mortises that were made for them in silver bases. God took care to have every thing strong, as well as fine, in his tabernacle. Curtains without boards would have been shaken by every wind; but it is a good thing to have the heart established with grace, which is as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:13

And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side o that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent ,.... The curtains of the tent, or the goat hair curtains, were two cubits longer than the other, and these are the two cubits, one on one side and the other on the other, which remained, and by which they were longer than the linen curtains: it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle ; the north and south sides: on this side: and on that side, to cover it ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:14

And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red ,.... This was a covering that was put over the curtains of goats' skin; but whether it went all over them, or only upon the roof of the tabernacle they covered, to keep out the rains from soaking through, is not certain, nor very evident; Jarchi thinks the roof was only covered with this covering of rams' skins; but others think it more reasonable that the whole was covered with them to preserve from dust and rain: and a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:15

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle ,.... Which were the pillars and supports, and properly the walls of it, which gave it its firmness and security, or otherwise the curtains would have been blown about by every wind: they were to be made of shittim wood standing up ; just as they grew, as a Jewish writer observes F16 Bartenora in Misn. Succa, c. 3. sect. 14. ; these planks or boards were not to be laid along the lengthways of them, but to be set upright; and may... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:16

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board ,.... Or five yards, according to the common cubit: and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board ; or three quarters of a yard; and from hence we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computation of a cubit, it was but five yards high and fifteen long, since there were but twenty boards on each side, Exodus 26:18 , but if three inches are added to each cubit, it will make its... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:17

Two tenons shall there be on one board ,.... Every board was to be so cut and shaped at the lower end of it, as to have, as it were, "two hands" F18 שתי ידות "duae manus", Montanus. , as in the original, to enter into, lay hold on, and fasten in mortises: set in order one against another ; at a proper distance from each other, as the rounds of a ladder: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle ; everyone was to have two tenons. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:18

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle ,.... As in the manner before described, so in number as follows: twenty boards on the south side southward ; which being a cubit and a half broad, made the length of the tabernacle fifteen yards according to the common account; but if these were cubits of twenty one inches, then its length was much greater. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 26:14

Rams' skins dyed red - See Clarke's note on Exodus 25:5 . This was the third covering; and what is called the badgers' skins was the fourth. See Clarke's note on Exodus 25:5 . Why there should have been four coverings does not appear. They might have been designed partly for respect; and partly to keep off dust and dirt, and the extremely fine sand which in that desert rises as it were on every breeze; and partly to keep off the intense heat of the sun, which would otherwise have... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 26:15

Thou 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 service of their oppressors, we may... read more

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