And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Corners. Hebrew tenons, literally, "hands "which has the same meaning as the Vulgate. Some think, the sockets or bases rested on the ground, and had a point which entered into the boards, to keep them in their places. (Lyranus) The ornaments on the north and south were the same. (Calmet)

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