Exodus 26:14
Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
Note Possibly the hides of large aquatic mammals
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- a covering
- Exodus 36:19; Numbers 4:5; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 121:4, 5; Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 25:4
- Exodus 26:14
- 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.
- Exodus 25:5; Exodus 35:7, 23; Exodus 39:34; Numbers 4:10; Ezekiel 16:10