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Exodus 26:17-19
New English Translation
Exodus 26:17-19
New English Translation
17 with two projections[a] per frame parallel one to another.[b] You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. 18 So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side,[c] 19 and you are to make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames—two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise[d] two bases under the next frame for its two projections;
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- Exodus 26:17 sn Heb “hands,” the reference is probably to projections that served as stays or supports. They may have been tenons, or pegs, projecting from the bottom of the frames to hold the frames in their sockets (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 286).
- Exodus 26:17 tn Or “being joined each to the other.”
- Exodus 26:18 tn Heb “on the south side southward.”
- Exodus 26:19 tn The clause is repeated to show the distributive sense; it literally says, “and two bases under the one frame for its two projections.”
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