Exodus 26:17
In the sides of the boards shall be made two mortises, whereby one board may be joined to another board: and after this manner shall all the boards be prepared.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
16Let every one of them be ten cubits in length, and in breadth on cubit and a half.
18Of which twenty shall be in the south side southward.
Cross References
Exodus 26:19For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under every board may be put two sockets at the two corners.
Exodus 36:24With forty sockets of silver, two sockets were put under one board on the two sides of the corners, where the mortises of the sides end in the corners.
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 →