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Exodus 38:15

in Exodus 38

And the curtains on the other side were also fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases as well.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

KJV

And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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This verse in Exodus 38

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The curtains on one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long

on Exodus 38:14-17

Every pillar of the court is banded and capped in silver. Verse 28 says that silver is the 1,775 shekels left from the ransom money after the hundred sockets of the dwelling were cast.

This site's exposition

also fifteen cubits long

Fifteen cubits of curtain on each side leave twenty cubits open in the middle of the fifty cubit east wall. Verse 18 fills that space with the embroidered curtain of the entrance. Exodus 27:14-16 gave the same three measures.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Commentary on Chapter XXXVIII 1. The altar of burnt-offering - On this all their sacrifices were offered. Christ was himself the altar to his own sacrifice of atonement, and so he is to all our sacrifices of acknowledgment.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וְלַכָּתֵ֣ףand for the side

    velakatefH3802 →67 times

  • הַשֵּׁנִ֗ית<the> second

    hashenitH8145 →156 times

  • מִזֶּ֤הfrom this

    mizehH2088 →1180 times

  • וּמִזֶּה֙and from this

    umizehH2088 →1180 times

  • לְשַׁ֣עַרto [the] gate of

    leshaarH8179 →374 times

  • הֶֽחָצֵ֔רthe courtyard

    hechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • קְלָעִ֕יםcurtains

    kelaimH7050 →22 times

  • חֲמֵ֥שׁ[were] fif-

    chameshH2568 →343 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֖הteen

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • אַמָּ֑הcubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • עַמֻּדֵיהֶ֣םpillars their

    ʾamudeihemH5982 →111 times

  • שְׁלֹשָׁ֔הthree

    sheloshahH7969 →432 times

  • וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖םand bases their

    veadneihemH134 →57 times

  • שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃three

    sheloshahH7969 →432 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 38 →

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

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