Acacia Wood quantities are also staggering:

Tabernacle sides: twenty boards each side, each board twenty-one feet by thirty-one inches. The boards were four tenths of an inch thick, so they were heavy. Forty boards for the sides of the Tabernacle, plus the nine pillars with five for the entrance and four for the west end of the tent, then the table for the bread, the altar, the incense altar, and the Ark.

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.