Exodus 26 · Verse 18

Exodus 26:18

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
Exodus 26:18, King James Version

Exodus 26:18 in other translations

BSBConstruct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,
WEBYou shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward.
ASVAnd thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
YLTand thou hast made the boards of the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;
DARBYAnd thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
BBEThese are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side,
WebsterAnd thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

What does Exodus 26:18 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 26:18 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.

וְעָשִׂ֥יתָve.'a.Si.taand you will makeH6213
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַקְּרָשִׁ֖יםha.ke.ra.Shimthe framesH7175
לַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ןla.mish.Kanfor the tabernacleH4908
עֶשְׂרִ֣ים'es.RimtwentyH6242
קֶ֔רֶשׁKe.reshframe[s]H7175
לִפְאַ֖תlif.'Atfor [the] side ofH6285
נֶ֥גְבָּהNeg.bahsouth -wardH5045
תֵימָֽנָה\׃tei.Ma.nahsouth -wardH8486

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

Context

  • 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.

  • 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.

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Exodus 26:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Harás, pues, las tablas del tabernáculo: veinte tablas al lado del mediodía, al austro.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et tu feras les ais pour le tabernacle, 20 ais pour le côté du midi vers le sud;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und mache die Bretter zu der Wohnung: zwanzig Bretter an der Seite gegen Mittag, südwärts;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quarum viginti erunt in latere meridiano quod vergit ad austrum.