The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
ten cubits is the length of the one board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of the one board;
ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board;
Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.
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In the building of a house there is a great deal of work about the doors and partitions. In the tabernacle these were answerable to the rest of the fabric; there were curtains for doors, and veils for partitions. There was a veil made for a partition between the holy place, and the most holy,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
