Teaching the Old Testament. Revealing Christ.
Teaching the Old Testament. Revealing Christ.
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Upright boards of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and set in sockets of silver, formed the walls of the Tabernacle.
Location
The walls of the tent
Boards
48, each 10 × 1½ cubits
Material
Acacia wood, gold, silver sockets
Sockets
100 talents of silver
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What the Bible says
King James Version
And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
And for the other sides of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus 36:20–26; cf. Exodus 26:15–25
Pointing to Christ
The whole house stood on silver sockets cast from the atonement money every Israelite paid (Exodus 30:11–16; 38:25–27). God's dwelling rested on redemption.
“Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold … but with the precious blood of Christ.” 1 Peter 1:18–19
Where it stood
Construction · The Tent
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