Exodus 25:5 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 25:5

ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

BSB

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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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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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 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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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְעֹרֹ֨ת	ve.'o.Rot	and hides of	H5785 →
אֵילִ֧ם	'ei.Lim	rams	H352 →
מְאָדָּמִ֛ים	me.'a.da.Mim	dyed red	H119 →
וְעֹרֹ֥ת	ve.'o.Rot	and hides of	H5785 →
תְּחָשִׁ֖ים	te.cha.Shim	dolphins	H8476 →
וַעֲצֵ֥י	va.'a.Tzei	and wood<s> of	H6086 →
שִׁטִּֽים׃	shi.Tim	acacia	H7848 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 26:37
Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.
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.
Through
Exodus 26:26
You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
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.
Through
Exodus 36:20
Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
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.

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