 In the masoretic text, these are claimed to be four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high, but the older Septuagint, and Josephus, both claim instead give the size as five cubits long, five cubits wide, and six cubits high.These bases are described as being made from two components; in the Masoretic Text, these are described by the Hebrew terms "misgeroth" and "shelabbim"; the Septuagint uses the Greek terms "sygkleiston" and "hexechomena" to describe them.The meaning of these words is unfortunately somewhat uncertain, although it is suspected that the "shelabbim"/"hexechomena" were the main part, onto which the "misgeroth"/"sygkleiston" were affixed (hence some English translations render these words into "side panels" and "uprights", or "borders" and "frames").