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Exodus 27:13

in Exodus 27

The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

KJV

And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

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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 the breadth of the court on the east side eastward,.... Which was the entrance into it: shall be fifty cubits; the east end and west end were of the same measure.

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

On the verses either side of this one

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

7 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.

  • וְרֹ֣חַבand [the] breadth of

    verochavH7341 →101 times

  • הֶֽחָצֵ֗רthe courtyard

    hechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • לִפְאַ֛תto [the] side of

    lifatH6285 →86 times

  • קֵ֥דְמָהeast -ward

    kedemahH6924 →

  • מִזְרָ֖חָהeast -ward

    mizrachahH4217 →

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים[will be] fifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • אַמָּֽה׃cubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 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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