The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 27:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. See the comment on Exodus 27:1. The term here used for" boards," (which is different from that in Exodus 26:15-29) implies strength and solidity. As it was showed thee in the mount, Compare Exodus 26:30, with the comment ad loc.

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