Keluaran 26:17

26:17 with two projections ¹  per frame parallel one to another. ²  You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Keluaran 26:19

26:19 and you are to make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames – two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise ³  two bases under the next frame for its two projections;

[26:17]  ¹ sn Heb “hands,” the reference is probably to projections that served as stays or supports. They may have been tenons, or pegs, projecting from the bottom of the frames to hold the frames in their sockets (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 286).

[26:17]  ² tn Or “being joined each to the other.”

[26:19]  ³ tn The clause is repeated to show the distributive sense; it literally says, “and two bases under the one frame for its two projections.”