With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.
Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House.
These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side,
And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north,
So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board.
And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass
Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver.
Of this silver, a hundred talents was used for making the bases of the pillars of the holy place and of the veil; a talent for every base.
Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places;
His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.
And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for,