John Gill Commentary Exodus 26:16

"Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board." — Exodus 26:16 (ASV)

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board
Or five yards, according to the common cubit:

and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board ;
or three quarters of a yard; and from which we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computation of a cubit, it was only five yards high and fifteen long, since there were only twenty boards on each side, (Exodus 26:18Exodus 26:20) , but if three inches are added to each cubit, it will make its measures considerably larger: Josephus ^F17 says the boards were four fingers thick: according to Bishop Cumberland the boards of the tabernacle, containing fifteen Jewish square cubits, were very near fifty English square feet in their length and breadth.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F17: Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 3.