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John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 26:16

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, etc.] Or five yards, according to the common cubit: and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board; or three quarters of a yard; and from hence we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computation of a cubit, it was but five yards high and fifteen long, since there were but twenty boards on each side, (<022618>Exodus 26:18,20), but if three inches are added to each cubit, it will make its measures considerably larger: Josephus f787 says the boards were four fingers thick: according to Bishop Cumberland the boards of the tabernacle, containing fifteen Jewish square cubits, were very near fifty English square feet in their length and breadth.
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