9738. 'A boarded hollow you shall make it' means the suitableness. This is clear from the meaning of 'a boarded hollow', used in reference to the altar on which the burnt offerings were to be burned and the fat of sacrifices was to be offered, as the suitableness, for by being a boarded hollow the altar was rendered suitable to that purpose. Therefore also the suitableness is meant of those things which belong to worship of the Lord that springs from the good of love, which were represented by the altar and by the burnt offerings and sacrifices offered upon it, 9714.