As to the tabernacle itself, Moses placed it in the middle of that court, with its front to the east, that, when the sun arose, it might send its first rays upon it.

Its length, when it was set up, was thirty cubits, and its breadth was twelve [ten] cubits.

The one of its walls was on the south, and the other was exposed to the north, and on the back part of it remained the west.

It was necessary that its height should be equal to its breadth [ten cubits].

There were also pillars made of wood, twenty on each side; they were wrought into a quadrangular figure, in breadth a cubit and a half, but the thickness was four fingers: they had thin plates of gold affixed to them on both sides, inwardly and outwardly: they had each of them two tenons belonging to them, inserted into their bases, and these were of silver, in each of which bases there was a socket to receive the tenon; but the pillars on the west wall were six.