King James Version
Exodus 36:21 in the King James Version says “The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 36 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.”
Exodus 36:21 · KJV
And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
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“cubit”
H520properly, a mother (i.e., unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e., a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
“cubit”
H520properly, a mother (i.e., unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e., a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
“cubit”
H520properly, a mother (i.e., unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e., a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
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