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Exodus 26:14-16
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Exodus 26:14-16
New English Translation
14 “You are to make a covering[a] for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.[b]
15 “You are to make the frames[c] for the tabernacle out of[d] acacia wood as uprights.[e] 16 Each[f] frame is to be 15 feet long, and each frame is to be 27 inches wide,
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- Exodus 26:14 sn Two outer coverings made of stronger materials will be put over the tent and the curtain, the two inner layers.
- Exodus 26:14 tn See the note on this phrase in Exod 25:5.
- Exodus 26:15 tn There is debate whether the word הַקְּרָשִׁים (haqqerashim) means “boards” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB) or “frames” (NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV) or “planks” (see Ezek 27:6) or “beams,” given the size of them. The literature on this includes M. Haran, “The Priestly Image of the Tabernacle,” HUCA 36 (1965): 192; B. A. Levine, “The Description of the Tabernacle Texts of the Pentateuch,” JAOS 85 (1965): 307-18; J. Morgenstern, “The Ark, the Ephod, and the Tent,” HUCA 17 (1942/43): 153-265; 18 (1943/44): 1-52.
- Exodus 26:15 tn “Wood” is an adverbial accusative.
- Exodus 26:15 tn The plural participle “standing” refers to how these items will be situated; they will be vertical rather than horizontal (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 354).
- Exodus 26:16 tn Heb “the frame.”
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