12 "The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits[1] wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases.

Other Translations of Exodus 27:12

King James Version

12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

English Standard Version

12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings for fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases.

The Message

12 "For the west end of the Courtyard you will need seventy-five feet of hangings with their ten posts and bases.

New King James Version

12 "And along the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets.

New Living Translation

12 The curtains on the west end of the courtyard will be 75 feet long, supported by ten posts set into ten bases.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 27:12

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.