Exodus 27:17

All the pillars of the court round about shall be banded with silver, their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

In Context

16And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer, their pillars four, and their sockets four.

18The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

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Cross References

Exodus 38:28And of the thousand seven hundred seventy-five [shekels] he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made bands for them.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 27:10-20

9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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