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Exodus 27:12

in Exodus 27

The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

KJV

And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

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This verse in Exodus 27

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle

on Exodus 27:9-13

The courtyard is a wall of plain linen a hundred cubits by fifty. Its posts stand on “bronze bases” with “silver hooks and bands,” so the perimeter repeats the tent's order of metals, the plainest at the ground.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And for the breadth of the court, on the west side,.... On the west end, the upper end of the court, near to which reached the holy of holies: shall be hangings of fifty cubits: or twenty five yards and more, so that the court was but half as broad as it was long: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; which was a number proportionate to the hangings, and stood at an equal distance from each other, as the pillars for the sides, at five cubits, or two yards and a half, as commonly computed.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the court of the tabernacle--The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle.

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

AND FOR THE BREADTH…FIFTY CUBITS. The width of the courtyard was thus half of its length. 40 The courtyard was 100 cubits long.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 27:12:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְרֹ֤חַבand [the] breadth of

    verochavH7341 →101 times

  • הֶֽחָצֵר֙the courtyard

    hechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • לִפְאַת־to [the] side of

    lifat-H6285 →86 times

  • יָ֔ם[the] west

    yamH3220 →396 times

  • קְלָעִ֖יםcurtains

    kelaimH7050 →22 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֣יםfifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • אַמָּ֑הcubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • עַמֻּדֵיהֶ֣םpillars their

    ʾamudeihemH5982 →111 times

  • עֲשָׂרָ֔הten

    ʾasarahH6235 →176 times

  • וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖םand bases their

    veadneihemH134 →57 times

  • עֲשָׂרָֽה׃ten

    ʾasarahH6235 →176 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 27 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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