Exodus 26 · Verse 16

Exodus 26:16

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
Exodus 26:16, King James Version

Exodus 26:16 in other translations

BSBEach frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
WEBTen cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.
ASVTen cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
YLTten cubits is the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of the one board;
DARBYten cubits the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of one board.
BBEEvery board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.
WebsterTen cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

What does Exodus 26:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 26:15-30

15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave it solidity and…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board - Each of these boards or planks was about five yards and two feet and a half long, and thirty-two inches broad; and as they are said to be standing up, this was the Height of the tabernacle. The length being thirty cubits, twenty boards, one cubit and a half broad each, make about seventeen yards and a half, and the Breadth was about five yards.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 26:15-30

The sockets of silver each weighed about 115 pounds; they were placed in rows on the ground. In every pair of these sockets, a strong board of shittim-wood, covered with plates of gold, was fitted by mortises and tenons. Thus walls were formed for the two sides, and for the west end. The wall was further held together by bars, which passed through rings of gold. Over this the curtains were spread. Though movable, it…

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Exodus 26:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עֶ֥שֶׂר'E.ser[will be] tenH6235
אַמּ֖וֹת'a.MotcubitsH520
אֹ֣רֶךְ'O.rekh[the] length ofH753
הַקָּ֑רֶשׁha.Ka.reshthe frameH7175
וְאַמָּה֙ve.'a.Mahand [will be] a cubitH520
וַחֲצִ֣יva.cha.Tziand [the] half ofH2677
הָֽאַמָּ֔הha.'a.Mahthe cubitH520
רֹ֖חַבRo.chav[the] breadth ofH7341
הַקֶּ֥רֶשׁha.Ke.reshthe frameH7175
הָאֶחָֽד\׃ha.'e.Chad<the> oneH259

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

  • Exodus 26:15

    And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

  • Exodus 26:16

    Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

  • Exodus 26:17

    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.

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Exodus 26:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		La longitud de cada tabla será de diez codos, y de codo y medio la anchura de cada tabla.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		la longueur d’un ais sera de dix coudées, et la largeur d’un ais d’une coudée et demie.
German
Elberfelder 1871		zehn Ellen die Länge eines Brettes, und eine und eine halbe Elle die Breite eines Brettes;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		quæ singulæ denos cubitos in longitudine habeant, et in latitudine singulos ac semissem.