All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
Pins - were designed to hold down the curtains at the bottom, lest the wind should waft them aside (Exodus 27:12) х pe'ah (H6285) yaam (H3220), the side of the sea-i.e, west (Exodus 27:13). Qeedªmaah (H6924) mizraachaah (H4217)]. Mizraach denotes the place of the sun's rising [Greek, anatolee; Latin, oriens]; here it is joined with kedem, in front of one - i:e., the east, from the Oriental practice of turning in that direction when pointing to the points of the compass. The phrase, then, "on the east side eastward," which appears in our version very tautological, is not so in the original, the two words used bearing etymologically different meanings.