Exodus 26 · Verse 17

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.
Exodus 26:17, King James Version

Exodus 26:17 in other translations

BSBTwo tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
WEBThere shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
ASVTwo tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
YLTtwo handles are to the one board, joined one unto another; so thou dost make for all the boards of the tabernacle;
DARBYOne board shall have two tenons, connected one with the other: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
BBEEvery board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House.
WebsterTwo tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

What does Exodus 26:17 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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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 26:17 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.

שְׁתֵּ֣יshe.TeitwoH8147
יָד֗וֹתya.DothandsH3027
לַקֶּ֙רֶשׁ֙la.Ke.resh[belonged] to the frameH7175
הָאֶחָ֔דha.'e.Chad<the> oneH259
מְשֻׁלָּבֹ֔תme.shu.la.VotjoinedH7947
אִשָּׁ֖ה'i.ShaheachH802
אֶל\־'el-toH413
אֲחֹתָ֑הּ'a.cho.Tahsister itsH269
כֵּ֣ןkenthusH3651
תַּעֲשֶׂ֔הta.'a.Sehyou will doH6213
לְכֹ֖לle.Kholfor allH3605
קַרְשֵׁ֥יkar.Shei[the] frames ofH7175
הַמִּשְׁכָּֽן\׃ha.mish.Kanthe tabernacleH4908

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

Cross references for Exodus 26:17

  • Exodus 26:19

    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.

  • Exodus 36:24

    And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

  • Exodus 36:22

    One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
tenons. Heb. hands.
19; 36:22,24

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Context

  • 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.

  • Exodus 26:18

    And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

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Exodus 26:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Dos quicios tendrá cada tabla, trabadas la una con la otra; así harás todas las tablas del tabernáculo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Il y aura deux tenons à un ais, en façon d’échelons, l’un répondant à l’autre; tu feras de même pour tous les ais du tabernacle.
German
Elberfelder 1871
zwei Zapfen an einem Brette, einer dem anderen gegenüber eingefügt: also sollst du es machen zu allen Brettern der Wohnung.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
In lateribus tabulæ, duæ incastraturæ fient, quibus tabula alteri tabulæ connectatur: atque in hunc modum cunctæ tabulæ parabuntur.