You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
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You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
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And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
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And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of sealskins above.
Cross-references (12)
Passages linked to Exodus 26:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 36:19 He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
- Exodus 25:5 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
- Exodus 35:7 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
- Exodus 35:23 Everyone with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.
- Exodus 39:34 the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,
- Numbers 4:5 When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
- Numbers 4:10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
- Psalms 27:5 For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
- Psalms 121:4-5 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
- Isaiah 4:6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
- Isaiah 25:4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
- Ezekiel 16:10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sealskin sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To be put upon the covering that was made…
To be put upon the covering that was made of goats’ hair.
This was the third covering of the Tabernacle.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for…
Exo 26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of] rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers’ skins.
Ver. 14. A covering for the tent.] Shadowing out God’s protecting his people, {Isa 4:6; Isa 25:4 Psa 27:5} as these rams’ skins covered the ark from the violence of wind and weather.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To preserve the rest from the injury of the…
To preserve the rest from the injury of the weather.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,....…
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,.... Which were the pillars and supports, and properly the walls of it, which gave it its firmness and security, or otherwise the curtains would have been blown about by every wind: they were to be made
of shittim wood standing up; just as they grew, as a Jewish writer observes (p); these planks or boards were not to be laid along the lengthways of them, but to be set upright; and may denote such who are pillars in the house of God, and are to be upright both in heart and conversation, both ministers and private members; and indeed the church itself is the pillar and ground of truth, Gal 2:9.
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(p) Bartenora in Misn. Succa, c. 3. sect. 14.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Badger skins - So we translate it, but it…
Badger skins - So we translate it, but it should rather seem to have been some strong sort of leather, (but very fine) for we read of the best sort of shoes made of it. Ezek. xvi, 10.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 14. Rams' skins dyed red] See Clarke on…
Verse 14. Rams' skins dyed red] See Clarke on Ex 25:5. This was the third covering; and what is called the badgers' skins was the fourth. See Clarke on Ex 25:5. Why there should have been four coverings does not appear. They might have been designed partly for respect; and partly to keep off dust and dirt, and the extremely fine sand which in that desert rises as it were on every breeze; and partly to keep off the intense heat of the sun, which would otherwise have destroyed the poles, bars, boards, and the whole of the wood work. As to the conjecture of some that "the four coverings were intended the better to keep off the rain," it must appear unfounded to those who know that in that desert rain was rarely ever seen.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 26:14. Badgers’ skins — So we translate it:…
Exo 26:14. Badgers’ skins — So we translate it: but it seems rather to have been some strong sort of leather, but very fine, for we read of the best sort of shoes made of it, Eze 16:10. This was the fourth covering of the tabernacle. The first was of linen, the second of goats’ hair, and the third of rams’ skins.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Skins. These two were probably as large as the…
Skins. These two were probably as large as the last, to keep out rain; (Menochius) though the text only specifies the roof.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain a covering . . . of rams' skins dyed…
a covering . . . of rams' skins dyed red--that is, of Turkey red leather. [See on Exo 39:34.]
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 14. A covering — To be placed still above…
14. A covering — To be placed still above the goats’ hair tent-cloth, as an additional protection.
Rams’ skins… badgers’ skins — See note on Exo_25:5. Whether these extra coverings of skins were coextensive with the entire roof, we are nowhere told, but in the absence of specific information we are hardly justified in the conclusion that one or both of them served only for a coping. No doubt the common customs of adjusting tent cloths among a nomadic people were presupposed, and definite information on some matters of detail was considered unnecessary.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. (cf. Exo_36:19). Two outer coverings of stronger and…
14. (cf. Exo_36:19). Two outer coverings of stronger and stouter materials, to be laid over the Tent, for protection against rain. Kn. reminds us that on military expeditions the Romans used in winter to cover their tents with skins (sub pellibus hiemare).
rams’ skins dyed red] i.e. leather, dyed, not with the costly Phoenician ‘scarlet’ (Exo_25:4), but probably (Kennedy), as LXX. ἠρυθροδανωμένα suggests, with madder (ἐρυθρόδανον).
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sealskins] dugong skins (Exo_25:5). The Dwelling, with the coverings above it, was kept in its place by cords connecting it with pins driven into the ground, in the manner of a tent: see Exo_27:19, Exo_35:18, Exo_38:20; Exo_38:31.
15–30 (cf. Exo_36:20-34). The ‘boards,’ or, perhaps, frames, for the Dwelling. There is great difficulty in some of the details: but the general sense is clear. The ‘boards’ were to be of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, each 10 cubits (15 ft.) long, and 1½ cubits (2 ft. 3 in.) broad: they were to be placed upright, so as to form the sides and back of the Dwelling, each resting in two sockets of silver: there were to be twenty forming each side, six to form the back, and two, of special construction, at the corners, where the back and sides met: five bars, attached to the boards by rings, were to run horizontally along the two sides and the back, respectively, to hold them firmly in their place.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) As the object of the two outer coverings…
3. THE TWO OUTER COVERINGS.
(14) As the object of the two outer coverings must have been to keep out rain, we must suppose them to have protected not only the ridge of the roof, but, at any rate, the whole of the mishkân. Their length must, therefore, have been at least thirty cubits, and their breadth fourteen.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The outer protection (ver. 14).
The outer protection (ver. 14).
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent. Nothing is said of the size of this covering; but, as its object was clearly to protect the roof of the tent from penetration by wet, it seems reasonable to suppose that it extended at least as far as the boards of the tabernacle. To do this, it must have been thirty cubits long, and fourteen broad.
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