Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the... — study this verse from Exodus chapter 26 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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. tenons: Heb. hands”
Exodus 26:17 · King James Version
And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
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. tenons: Heb. hands
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
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“tenons”
H3027“against another”
H269“thus shalt thou make”
H6213“of the tabernacle”
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