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Exodus 36:20-30 meaning
The construction of the tabernacle's framework begins. First, Bezalel, the chief craftsman, made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. The curtains would then be draped over these boards.
The word translated boards (Heb. "qerashim") here is translated "frames" in other translations (NIV, NET, NRSV, for example). Many scholars think that solid pieces of wood (like plywood) is not what is in view here. They think that these boards were frames made of vertical planks connected to each other with horizontal planks, forming a ladder-like construction.
Verse 21 states the size of each board.Ten cubits was the length of each board and one and a half cubits the width of each board. This would make each board around fifteen feet long (4.57 meters) and two and one-quarter feet wide (.68 meters).
To join the boards together, there were two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; thus he did for all the boards of the tabernacle. The tenons (pieces of wood that project out) provided an efficient way to join one board to another.
This was how Bezalel made the boards for the tabernacle: