Exodus 25:5
in Exodus 25ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;
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ASV
and rams’ skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood,
KJV
And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
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This verse in Exodus 25
Commentary
5 notes on this verseRams’ 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 that have red or violet-coloured fleeces. And almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing. Homer describes the rams of Polyphemus as having a violet-coloured fleece. Αρσενες οΐες ησαν εΰτρεφεες, δασυμαλλοι, Καλοι τε, μεγαλοι τε, ιοδνεφες ειρος εχοντες. Odyss., lib. ix., ver. 425. “Strong were the rams, with native purple fair, Well fed, and largest of the fleecy care.” Pope.
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on Exodus 25:3-7
The metals are named in an order the whole structure keeps, “gold, silver, and bronze,” and chapter 26 grades them by nearness to the ark. The gold and silver came out of Egypt at 12:35 and 12:36, handed over by Israel's former masters.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), all of them things that there would be occasion for in the tabernacle, or the service of it. Some observe that here was gold, silver, and brass, provided, but no iron; that is the military metal, and this was to be a house of peace.
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And rams' skins died red,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
badgers' skins--The badger was an unclean animal, and is not a native of the East--rather some kind of fish, of the leather of which sandals are made in the East. [See on Ex 39:34 and Eze 16:10.] shittim wood--or Shittah (Isa 41:19), the acacia, a shrub which grows plentifully in the deserts of Arabia, yielding a light, strong, and beautiful wood, in long planks.
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The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעֹרֹ֨ת | veorot | and hides of | H5785 → | 99 times |
| אֵילִ֧ם | ʾeilim | rams | H352 → | 187 times |
| מְאָדָּמִ֛ים | meadamim | dyed red | H119 → | 10 times |
| וְעֹרֹ֥ת | veorot | and hides of | H5785 → | 99 times |
| תְּחָשִׁ֖ים | techashim | dolphins | H8476 → | 14 times |
| וַעֲצֵ֥י | vaatzei | and wood<s> of | H6086 → | 328 times |
| שִׁטִּֽים׃ | shitim | acacia | H7848 → | 28 times |
וְעֹרֹ֨תand hides of
veorotH5785 →99 times
אֵילִ֧םrams
ʾeilimH352 →187 times
מְאָדָּמִ֛יםdyed red
meadamimH119 →10 times
וְעֹרֹ֥תand hides of
veorotH5785 →99 times
תְּחָשִׁ֖יםdolphins
techashimH8476 →14 times
וַעֲצֵ֥יand wood<s> of
vaatzeiH6086 →328 times
שִׁטִּֽים׃acacia
shitimH7848 →28 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 26:37Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.
it leads to
- Exodus 36:38
together with five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.
- Exodus 36:38
Through
Exodus 26:26You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
it leads to
- Ephesians 4:16
From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
- Numbers 3:36
The duties assigned to the sons of Merari were the tabernacle’s frames, crossbars, posts, bases, and all its equipment—all the service for these items,
- Colossians 2:19
He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
- 1 Corinthians 9:19–20
Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
- Romans 15:1
We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
- Ephesians 4:16
Through
Exodus 36:20Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
it leads to
- Numbers 25:1
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
- Exodus 25:10
And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- Numbers 25:1
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.