"Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board,.... Or five yards, according to the common cubit: and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board;
or three quarters of a yard; and from hence we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computation of a cubit, it was but five yards high and fifteen long, since there were but twenty boards on each side, Exo 26:18 , but if three inches are added to each cubit, it will make its measures considerably larger: Josephus (q) says the boards were four fingers thick: according to Bishop Cumberland the boards of the tabernacle, containing fifteen Jewish square cubits, were very near fifty English square feet in their length and breadth. (q) Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 3.
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board,.... Or five yards, according to the common cubit: and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board;
or three quarters of a yard; and from hence we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computation of a cubit, it was but five yards high and fifteen long, since there were but twenty boards on each side, Exo 26:18 , but if three inches are added to each cubit, it will make its measures considerably larger: Josephus (q) says the boards were four fingers thick: according to Bishop Cumberland the boards of the tabernacle, containing fifteen Jewish square cubits, were very near fifty English square feet in their length and breadth. (q) Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 3.