You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
Parallel translations
- KJV And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
- BSB with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.
- NKJV You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons.
- NASB You shall make forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two tenons and two bases under another board for its two tenons;
- NLT Also make forty silver bases—two bases under each frame, with the pegs fitting securely into the bases.
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Quick answer
Forty silver sockets supported the twenty south-side boards, two beneath each board's tenons. These bases anchored the frame to the ground.
Overview
Each board rested on two silver sockets, giving the wall a firm, level foundation. The silver, gathered from the people's atonement money (Exodus 30:11-16), formed the very base of God's dwelling. That the sanctuary rested on a foundation tied to atonement quietly points to the truth that we draw near to God only on the ground of redemption.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 38:27The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
- Exod 40:18Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
- Num 3:36The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
- Song 5:15His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
- Exod 36:24–26He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
- Exod 26:37You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exod 27:12–18For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
- Exod 38:30–31With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,
- Exod 27:10and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
- Num 4:31–32This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
- Exod 26:25There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
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