9 "Make a Courtyard for The Dwelling. The south side is to be 150 feet long. The hangings for the Courtyard are to be woven from fine twisted linen, 10 with their twenty posts, twenty bronze bases, and fastening hooks and bands of silver. 11 The north side is to be exactly the same. 12 "For the west end of the Courtyard you will need seventy-five feet of hangings with their ten posts and bases. 13 Across the seventy-five feet at the front, or east end, 14 you will need twenty-two and a half feet of hangings, with their three posts and bases on one side 15 and the same for the other side. 16 At the door of the Courtyard make a screen thirty feet long woven from blue, purple, and scarlet stuff, with fine twisted linen, embroidered by a craftsman, and hung on its four posts and bases. 17 All the posts around the Courtyard are to be banded with silver, with hooks of silver and bases of bronze. 18 The Courtyard is to be 150 feet long and seventy-five feet wide. The hangings of fine twisted linen set on their bronze bases are to be seven and a half feet high.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 27:9-18
Commentary on Exodus 27:9-19
(Read Exodus 27:9-19)
The tabernacle was enclosed in a court, about sixty yards long and thirty broad, formed by curtains hung upon brazen pillars, fixed in brazen sockets. Within this enclosure the priests and Levites offered the sacrifices, and thither the Jewish people were admitted. These distinctions represented the difference between the visible nominal church, and the true spiritual church, which alone has access to God, and communion with him.