There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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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.
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Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another; thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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Passages linked to Exodus 26:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 26:19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
- Exodus 36:22 Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
- Exodus 36:24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Two tenons, Heb. hands, i.e. parts of the boards,…
Two tenons, Heb. hands, i.e. parts of the boards, so cut and framed that like hands they may take hold of and be fastened into the sockets, Exo 26:19.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,....…
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,.... As in the manner before described, so in number as follows:
twenty boards on the south side southward; which being a cubit and a half broad, made the length of the tabernacle fifteen yards according to the common account; but if these were cubits of twenty one inches, then its length was much greater.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Mortises, (incastraturæ). Hebrew, "tenons," which corresponded with the former.…
Mortises, (incastraturæ). Hebrew, "tenons," which corresponded with the former. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 17. Two tenons — Small projections from the bottom…
17. Two tenons — Small projections from the bottom of each board to set in the sockets mentioned in Exo_26:19.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. tenons] lit. hands, used fig. of supports: cf.…
17. tenons] lit. hands, used fig. of supports: cf. 1Ki_7:32-33 (EVV. axletrees; rather, diagonal stays under the body of the laver, holding the axles in their places), 35 (supports of the basin at the top), 36 (corrupt dittography from v. 35: see Skinner’s note in the Century Bible), Exo_10:16 (of the ‘arms’ of a throne). These ‘hands,’ or tenons, as ordinarily understood, were pegs projecting underneath the bottom of the boards, to hold them firm in their sockets (v. 19).
joined] the word (only here and in the ||, Exo_36:22) means joined by a cross-piece (cf. the cognate shĕlabbim, 1Ki_7:28-29†, ‘cross-pieces,’ or ‘cross-rails’ [see Skinner’s note: in EVV. misrendered ledges], and the post-Bibl. shĕlîbâh, the ‘rung’ of a ladder), clamped together. The tenons of each board (or frame) were secured in their places by a clamp of metal underneath the bottom of the board.
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Kennedy, however (p. 660a), understands the ‘hands’ not of tenons, but of the upright sides of the ‘frame’ themselves, and would render vv. 15–17 thus: ‘And thou shalt make the frames for the Dwelling of acacia wood, standing up,—10 cubits the length of a frame, and 1½ cubits the breadth of a frame,—namely, two uprights for [so rightly, for EVV. in] each frame, joined one to another by cross-rails [see the illustr.]: thus shalt thou make for all the frames of the Dwelling.’ The translation is quite legitimate (for there is in the Heb. no ‘shall be’ in either v. 16 or v. 17), and the explanation clever: but it is difficult to feel certain that such ‘uprights’ would be called hands in Heb. The sense ‘frames’ for ḳĕrâshim is not dependent upon it; and it is perhaps safer to adhere to the usual rend, ‘tenons.’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) Two tenons.—By “tenons” here are meant projections, probably…
(17) Two tenons.—By “tenons” here are meant projections, probably round, from the end of each plank, made to fit into holes prepared for them in the “sockets.” They were to be “set in order one against another”: i.e., placed regularly at certain intervals, so that each corresponded in position to its fellow.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Two tenons. Literally, "hands." Projecting rods, such as those…
Two tenons. Literally, "hands." Projecting rods, such as those common in our dinner tables, seem to be meant. They may have been of metal, let into the boards to a certain depth, and projecting several inches beyond them. Or, possibly, they may have been of acacia wood. In one boardi.e. "In each board no doubt, at the bottom of each. Set in order one against the other. Arranged, i.e. , at regular intervals, the position of each corresponding to the position of its fellow.
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