Exodus 27:12
And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus 27:12 in other translations
| BSB | The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases. |
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| WEB | For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. |
| ASV | And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. |
| YLT | ‘And for the breadth of the court at the west side are hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. |
| DARBY | — And the breadth of the court on the west side, hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their bases ten. |
| BBE | And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases; |
| Webster | And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. |
What does Exodus 27:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 27:9-19
9-19. the court of the tabernacle--The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that the people could see…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 27:9-19
The tabernacle was enclosed in a court, about sixty yards long and thirty broad, formed by curtains hung upon brazen pillars, fixed in brazen sockets. Within this enclosure the priests and Levites offered the sacrifices, and thither the Jewish people were admitted. These distinctions represented the difference between the visible nominal church, and the true spiritual church, which alone has access to God, and…
Exodus 27:12 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Exodus 27:11
And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
- Exodus 27:12
And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
- Exodus 27:13
And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
Exodus 27:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y el ancho del atrio del lado occidental tendrá cortinas de cincuenta codos; sus columnas diez, con sus diez basas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et pour la largeur du parvis du côté de l’occident, tu feras 50 coudées de tentures, leurs dix piliers et leurs dix bases. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Breite des Vorhofs an der Westseite: fünfzig Ellen Umhänge, ihre zehn Säulen und ihre zehn Füße. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | In latitudine vero atrii, quod respicit ad occidentem, erunt tentoria per quinquaginta cubitos, et columnæ decem, basesque totidem. |