Exodus 36:21

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

What does Exodus 36:21 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
Exodus 36:21 — American Standard Version

Context — Exodus 36

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
21Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

What do historical commentaries say?

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“The length: Each of these boards, taking the cubit at nearly twenty-two inches, was about eighteen feet long, and two feet nine inches broad. As these boards are said to be standing up ( Exo 36:20), their length was consequently the height of the tabernacle; and as the two sides were composed of twenty of these, standing up ( Exo 36:23 and Exo 36:25), and the west end of six, with two boards to project at the corners ( Exo 36:27 and Exo 36:28), the tabernacle must therefore, have been thirty cubits, or fifty-five feet long, and about ten cubits, or eighteen feet broad. These boards were fastened at the bottom by two tenons in each board, which fitted into two mortices in the foundation, at…”
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