20 Then he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. 21 Ten cubits was the length of [at]each board and one and a half cubits the width of each board.22 There were two tenons for each board, [au]fitted to one another; thus he did for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23 He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards [av]for the south side; 24 and he made forty [aw]sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two[ax]sockets under one board for its two tenons and two [ay]sockets under another board for its two tenons. 25 Then for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards, 26 and their forty [az]sockets of silver; two [ba]sockets under one board and two [bb]sockets under another board. 27 For the [bc]rear of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six boards. 28 He made two boards for the corners of the [bd]tabernacle at the [be]rear.29 They were double beneath, and together they were complete to its [bf]top [bg]to the first ring; thus he did with both of them for the two corners. 30 There were eight boards with their[bh]sockets of silver, sixteen [bi]sockets, [bj]two under every board.
This bit of workmanship makes some of our modern building standards look kind of sad. Ten cubits long is pretty long, but one and a half cubits wide is exceptional (a cubit generally being the length from your fingertips to your elbow). And I can’t imagine working with acacia was fun, as the trees were generally thorny. All said, this shows the dedication to making the tabernacle a place worthy of the God of the Universe. A tall order indeed!