Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 26:22
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
22. westward ] lit. sea – ward. Sea (i.e. the Medit. sea) is in Heb. the regular word for ‘west’; and the usage, like that of ngeb in v. 18 in the sense of ‘south,’ could only have arisen after Israel had been long settled in Canaan. So Exo 10:19; Exo 10:27; Exo 27:12; Exo 36:27; Exo 36:32; Exo 38:12.
The twenty frames for the sides of the Dwelling made up its entire length of 30 cubits (= 1 20). The six frames at the end would make 9 cubits: so that, as the entire width of the Dwelling was 10 cubits, if the frames at the sides were a cubit thick, the six at the end would just fill up the 9 cubits between them.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And for the sides of the tabernacle,…. Or the ends of it, the east and west, and the account begins with the west:
westward thou shalt make six boards; so that the breadth of the tabernacle was but nine cubits, or four yards and a half, according to a common cubit; but two boards more placed at the two corners of the sides, next observed, added to the breadth of it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Six boards were to be made for the back of the dwelling westwards ( ), and two boards “for the corners or angels of the dwelling at the two outermost (hinder) sides.” (for cornered), from , equivalent to an angle (Exo 26:24; Eze 46:21-22), from to cut off, lit., a section, something cut off, hence an angle, or corner-piece. These corner boards (Exo 26:24) were to be “ doubled ( ) from below, and whole ( , integri , forming a whole) at its head (or towards its head, cf. Exo 36:29) with regard to the one ring, so shall it be to both of them (so shall they both be made); to the two corners shall they be ” (i.e., designed for the two hinder corners). The meaning of these words, which are very obscure in some points, can only be the following: the two corner beams at the tack were to consist of two pieces joined together at a right angle, so as to form as double boards one single whole from the bottom to the top. The expressions “from below” and “up to its head” are divided between the two predicates “doubled” ( ) and “whole” ( ), but they belong to both of them. Each of the corner beams was to be double from the bottom to the top, and still to form one whole. There is more difficulty in the words in Exo 26:24. It is impossible to attach any intelligible meaning to the rendering “to the first ring,” so that even Knobel, who proposed it, has left it unexplained. There is hardly any other way of explaining it, than to take the word in the sense of “having regard to a thing,” and to understand the words as meaning, that the corner beams were to form one whole, from the face that each received only one ring, probably at the corner, and not two, viz., one on each side. This one ring was placed half-way up the upright beam in the corner or angle, in such a manner that the central bolt, which stretched along the entire length of the walls (Exo 26:28), might fasten into it from both the side and back.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(22) For the sides of the tabernacle westward.Rather, for the back of the tabernacle (LXX., ). (See Note on Exo. 26:18.) The west is always regarded as behind by the Orientals.
Six boards.Six boards, presumably of the same width with the others (Exo. 26:16), would extend a length of nine cubits only, or thirteen and a half feet. The tenth cubit seems to have been made up by the corner boards, or posts, which are counted with the six boards as forming the back of the tabernacle in Exo. 26:25.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
22. Westward six boards The tabernacle was to face eastward, toward the rising sun, and that side of the board structure was left open, to be enclosed only by curtains . Exo 26:36. But the west side, or end, was to be securely fastened with boards, as were the north and the south sides, (18, 20.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
sides. Hebrew. yarkah = hinder side.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Reciprocal: Exo 26:15 – boards Exo 36:27 – westward