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Exodus 25:5

Exodus 25:5
And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And rams' skins died red,.... Of these were made a covering for the tent or tabernacle:

and badgers' skins, which were for the same use: the Septuagint version calls them hyacinth or blue skins;…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Exodus 25:1-9

Yahweh had redeemed the Israelites from bondage. He had made a covenant with them and had given them laws. He had promised, on condition of their obedience, to accept them as His own “peculiar…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Rams' skins dyed red - ערת אילם מאדמים oroth eylim meoddamim, literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact attested by many respectable travelers, that in the Levant sheep are often to be met with…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Exodus 25:1-9

We may suppose that when Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and abode there so long, where the holy angels attended the shechinah, or divine Majesty, he saw and heard very glorious things…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Skins and wood.

rams" skins dyed red These formed the second covering over the certains (Exo 26:14).

sealskins Heb. -skins of tĕḥâshim," a word of uncertain meaning. In Arab. tuḥasor duḥasmeans a…

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