* The length.
   Each of these boards, taking the cubit at nearly twenty-two
   inches, was about eighteen feet long, and two feet nine
   inches broad.  As these boards are said to be standing up
   (ver. 20,) their length was consequently the height of the
   tabernacle; and as the two sides were composed of twenty of
   these, standing up (ver. 23, 25,) and the west end of six,
   with two boards to project at the corners, (ver. 27, 28,) the
   tabernacle must therefore, have been thirty cubits, or
   fifty-five feet long, and about ten cubits, or eighteen feet
   broad.  These boards were fastened at the bottom by two
   tenons in each board, which fitted into two mortices in the
   foundation, at the top by links or hasps, and on the sides by
   five wooden bars, which ran through rings or staples in each
   of the boards.  The boards and bars were all overlaid with
   gold; and their rings for the staves, and their hasps at top,
   were of the same metal.  The foundation on which they stood
   consisted of about ninety-six solid blocks of silver, two
   under each board, about eighteen inches long, and of a
   suitable thickness; and each weighing a talent, or about a
   hundred weight.  Four blocks of silver formed the bases of
   the columns which supported the curtain that divided the
   inside of the tabernacle into two rooms.