Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 26:16
Ten cubits [shall be] the length of a board, and a cubit and a half [shall be] the breadth of one board.
Verse 16. Ten cubits shall be the length of a board] Each of these boards or planks was about five yards and two feet and a half long, and thirty-two inches broad; and as they are said to be standing up, this was the HEIGHT of the tabernacle. The length being thirty cubits, twenty boards, one cubit and a half broad each, make about seventeen yards and a half, and the BREADTH was about five yards.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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 hence we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computation of a cubit, it was but five yards high and fifteen long, since there were but twenty boards on each side, Ex 26:18, but if three inches are added to each cubit, it will make its measures considerably larger: Josephus q 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.
q Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
16. Ten cubits a cubit and a half About fifteen feet long and a little over two feet wide . The thickness is not given . The acacia trees now found in the Sinaitic desert are said to be not of sufficient size to make boards of this measure . If this be true, it may be observed (1 . ) that nothing requires us to suppose that every board was made out of one piece of timber . Skilful workmanship could as easily make such boards out of many pieces as it could make the golden candlestick out of many small pieces of gold . (2 . ) It is probable that the ancient growths of those regions were far greater than those which are now seen .