^26:15“You are to make the frames²⁵ for the tabernacle out of²⁶ acacia wood as uprights.²⁷^26:16Each²⁸ frame is to be fifteen feet long, and each frame is to be two feet three inches wide, ^26:17with two projections²⁹ per frame parallel one to another.³⁰ You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. ^26:18So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side,³¹^26:19and you are to make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames—two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise³² two bases under the next frame for its two projections; ^26:20and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, twenty frames, ^26:21and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame. ^26:22And for the back of the tabernacle on the west³³ you will make six frames. ^26:23You are to make two frames for the corners³⁴ of the tabernacle on the back. ^26:24At the two corners³⁵ they must be doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So it will be for both. ^26:25So there are to be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

^26:26“You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, ^26:27and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames on the back of the tabernacle on the west. ^26:28The middle bar in the center of the frames will reach from end to end.³⁶^26:29You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold.

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Footnotes

25 There is debate whether the word הַקְּרָשִׁים (haqqérashim) means “boards” (, , , ) or “frames” (, , , ) or “planks” (see Ezek 27:6) or “beams,” given the size of them. The literature on this includes M. Haran, “The Priestly Image of the Tabernacle,” 36 (1965): 192; B. A. Levine, “The Description of the Tabernacle Texts of the Pentateuch,” 85 (1965): 307–18; J. Morgenstern, “The Ark, the Ephod, and the Tent,” 17 (1942/43): 153–265; 18 (1943/44): 1–52.
26 “Wood” is an adverbial accusative.
27 The plural participle “standing” refers to how these items will be situated; they will be vertical rather than horizontal (U. Cassuto, Exodus, ).
28 Heb “the frame.”
29 Heb “hands,” the reference is probably to projections that served as stays or supports. They may have been tenons, or pegs, projecting from the bottom of the frames to hold the frames in their sockets (S. R. Driver, Exodus, ).
30 Or “being joined each to the other.”
31 Heb “on the south side southward.”
32 The clause is repeated to show the distributive sense; it literally says, “and two bases under the one frame for its two projections.”
33 Or “westward” (toward the sea).
34 The term rendered “corners” is “an architectural term for some kind of special corner structure. Here it seems to involve two extra supports, one at each corner of the western wall” (N. M. Sarna, Exodus [], ).
35 Heb “they will be for the two corners.” This is the last clause of the verse, moved forward for clarity.
36 These bars served as reinforcements to hold the upright frames together. The Hebrew term for these bars is also used of crossbars on gates (Judg 16:3; Neh 3:3).