Exodus 30:4

upon the two ribs thereof i.e. upon its flanksor sides, a common metaph. sense of -rib" in Heb. (see on Exodus 25:12). The words seem tautologous beside the following -upon the two sides of it"; either they have come in here by error, through a recollection of Exodus 27:12, or (Di.) the expression denotes the extreme ends of the two sides, near the corners.

sides not as v.3, but the usual word for -side," Exodus 26:13, &c.