Exodus 26:17
Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
16Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.
18These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side,
Cross References
Exodus 26:19With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.
Exodus 36:24And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 26:16-31
15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up. 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board. 17 Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. 19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for… Read the whole commentary →