Exodus 26 · Verse 20

Exodus 26:20

And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
Exodus 26:20, King James Version

Exodus 26:20 in other translations

BSBFor the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames
WEBFor the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
ASVand for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
YLT‘And for the second side of the tabernacle, for the north side, are twenty boards,
DARBYAnd for the other side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards.
BBEAnd twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north,
WebsterAnd for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:

What does Exodus 26:20 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 26:20 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.

וּלְצֶ֧לַעu.le.Tze.la'and for [the] side ofH6763
הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ןha.mish.Kanthe tabernacleH4908
הַשֵּׁנִ֖יתha.she.Nit<the> secondH8145
לִפְאַ֣תlif.'Atfor [the] side ofH6285
צָפ֑וֹןtza.Fon[the] northH6828
עֶשְׂרִ֖ים'es.RimtwentyH6242
קָֽרֶשׁ\׃Ka.reshframe[s]H7175

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

Context

  • 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 26:20

    And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:

  • Exodus 26:21

    And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

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Exodus 26:20 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y al otro lado del tabernáculo, á la parte del aquilón, veinte tablas;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et pour l’autre côté du tabernacle, du côté du nord, 20 ais,
German
Elberfelder 1871
und an der anderen Seite der Wohnung, an der Nordseite, zwanzig Bretter,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
In latere quoque secundo tabernaculi quod vergit ad aquilonem, viginti tabulæ erunt,