Exodus 27:9

The Courtyard

27:9 “You are to make the courtyard ¹  of the tabernacle. For the south side ²  there are to be hangings ³  for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long for one side, ⁴ 

Exodus 27:11

27:11 Likewise ⁵  for its length on the north side, there are to be ⁶  hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands ⁷  on the posts.

Exodus 38:12

38:12 For the west side there were ⁸  hangings seventy-five feet long, with ⁹  their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Exodus 38:15

38:15 and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, ¹⁰  the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

[27:9]  ¹ tn Or “enclosure” (TEV).

[27:9]  ² tn Heb “south side southward.”

[27:9]  ³ tn Or “curtains.”

[27:9]  ⁴ sn The entire courtyard of 150 feet by 75 feet was to be enclosed by a curtain wall held up with posts in bases. All these hangings were kept in place by a cord and tent pegs.

[27:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “and thus.”

[27:11]  ⁶ tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.

[27:11]  ⁷ sn These bands have been thought by some to refer to connecting rods joining the tops of the posts. But it is more likely that they are bands or bind rings surrounding the posts at the base of the capitals (see 38:17).

[38:12]  ⁹ tn The phrase “there were” has been supplied.

[38:12]  ¹⁰ tn The text simply has “their posts ten and their bases ten”; this may be added here as a circumstantial clause with the main sentence in order to make sense out of the construction.

[38:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “from this and from this” (cf, 17:12; 25:19; 26:13; 32:15; Josh 8:22, 33; 1 Kgs 10:19-20; Ezek 45:7).