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. Now all these tenons and sockets accurately
fitted one another, insomuch that the joints were invisible, and both
seemed to be one entire and united wall. It was also covered with gold,
both within and without. The number of pillars was equal on the opposite
sides, and there were on each part twenty, and every one of them had the
third part of a span in thickness; so that the number of thirty cubits
were fully made up between them; but as to the wall behind, where the
six pillars made up together only nine cubits, they made two other
pillars, and cut them out of one cubit, which they placed in the
corners, and made them equally fine with the other. Now every one of the
pillars had rings of gold affixed to their fronts outward, as if they
had taken root in the pillars, and stood one row over against another
round about, through which were inserted bars gilt over with gold, each
of them five cubits long, and these bound together the pillars, the head
of one bar running into another, after the nature of one tenon inserted
into another; but for the wall behind, there was but one row of bars
that went through all the pillars, into which row ran the ends of the
bars on each side of the longer walls; the male with its female being so
fastened in their joints, that they held the whole firmly together;
and for this reason was all this joined so fast together, that the
tabernacle might not be shaken, either by the winds, or by any
other means, but that it might preserve itself quiet and immovable
continually.

4. As for the inside, Moses parted its length into three partitions. At
the distance of ten cubits from the most secret end, Moses placed four
pillars, the workmanship of which was the very same with that of the
rest; and they stood upon the like bases with them, each a small matter
distant from his fellow. Now the room within those pillars was the most
holy place; but the rest of the room was the tabernacle, which was
open for the priests. However, this proportion of the measures of the
taberna