The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
Before the tabernacle there was to be a court or yard, enclosed with hangings of the finest linen that was used for tents. This court, according to the common computation of cubits, was fifty yards long, and twenty-five broad. Pillars were set up at convenient distances, in sockets of brass, the pillars filleted with silver, and silver tenter-hooks in them, on which the linen hangings...
Commenting on Exodus 27:9-19
And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward,.... Which was the entrance into it: shall be fifty cubits; the east end and west end were of the same measure.
And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits. (e) Meaning curtains of fifty cubits.