Exodus 26:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The Framework. 15 (A)You shall make frames for the tabernacle, acacia-wood uprights. 16 The length of each frame is to be ten cubits, and its width one and a half cubits. 17 Each frame shall have two arms[a] joined one to another; so you are to make all the frames of the tabernacle.
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- 26:17 Arms: lit., “hands.” According to some, they served as “tongue and groove” to mortise the structural elements; according to others, they were pegs that fitted into sockets in the pedestals.
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