Exo 26:7-14 | TSK | STEP | curtains. goats' hair.{Izzim,} goats, but used here elliptically for goats' hair. In different parts of Asia Minor, Syria, Cilicia, and Phrygia, the goats have long, fine, and beautiful hair; in some cases, almost as fine as silk, which is shorn at proper times, and manufactured into garments. a. eleven.

Exodus 26:7-14

curtains.

35:26; 36:14-18; Nu 4:25; Ps 45:13; 1Pe 3:4; 5:5

goats' hair.{Izzim,} goats, but used here elliptically for goats' hair. In different parts of Asia Minor, Syria, Cilicia, and Phrygia, the goats have long, fine, and beautiful hair; in some cases, almost as fine as silk, which is shorn at proper times, and manufactured into garments.

25:4; 35:6,23; Nu 31:20

14; Isa 4:5

eleven.

1,9,12

length of one curtain.

2,13

five curtains by themselves.

fifty loops.

4-6

tent. or, covering.

3,6

shall hang over.

a cubit.

2,8

of that which remaineth. Heb. in the remainder orsurplusage.

a covering.

36:19; Nu 4:5; Ps 27:5; 121:4,5; Isa 4:6; 25:4

rams' skins dyed red.{Oroth ailim meoddamim,} literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact, attested by many respectable travellers, that in the Levant, sheep are often met with having red or violet coloured fleeces. Almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing.

25:5; 35:7,23; 39:34; Nu 4:10; Eze 16:10

badgers' skins.{Oroth techashim,} which nearly all the ancient versions have taken to be the name of a colour, though they differ very much with regard to the particular colour intended: the LXX., Vulgate, and Coptic, have skins dyed of a violet colour; the Syriac, azure; and the Arabic, black; and Bochart contends for the hysginus, a very deep blue. It may, however, denote an animal; for Dr. Geddes remarks, had the sacred writer meant to express only a variety of colour, he would hardly have repeated {óroth,} skins, after {meoddamim,} red, in ch. 25:5.