Exodus 36:19
in Exodus 36Additionally, he made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.
KJV
And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
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This verse in Exodus 36
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
for the tent over the tabernacle
on Exodus 36:14-19
The second covering is goat hair, eleven curtains over the ten below, and its clasps are bronze where the inner clasps were gold. So the metal grades plainer the further out it sits.
This site's exposition
a covering of ram skins dyed red
The two outer coverings of the tent carry out 26:14, laid over the curtains of goat hair. Matthew Henry reads the covering as the LORD's shelter for His people, a shade from heat and a cover from storm, citing Isaiah 4. The fine leather was the outer covering.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
God has provided for his people a shadow from the heat, and a covert from storm and rain, Isa. iv. They are armed against all weathers; the sun and the moon shall not smite them: and they are protected from the storms of divine wrath, that hail which will sweep away the refuge of lies, Isa. xxviii.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
La-ohel (for tent) means to serve as a tent. 40 La-ohel (for tent) literally means to tent. Hence I.E.’s interpretation.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 1 further source is cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֤עַשׂ | vaiyaas | and he made | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| מִכְסֶה֙ | mikhseh | a covering | H4372 → | 16 times |
| לָאֹ֔הֶל | laohel | for the tent | H168 → | 345 times |
| עֹרֹ֥ת | ʾorot | skins of | H5785 → | 99 times |
| אֵלִ֖ים | ʾelim | rams | H352 → | 187 times |
| מְאָדָּמִ֑ים | meadamim | dyed red | H119 → | 10 times |
| וּמִכְסֵ֛ה | umikhseh | and a covering of | H4372 → | 16 times |
| עֹרֹ֥ת | ʾorot | skins of | H5785 → | 99 times |
| תְּחָשִׁ֖ים | techashim | dolphins | H8476 → | 14 times |
| מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃ ס | milmaelah | from to above <towards> | H4605 → | 140 times |
וַיַּ֤עַשׂand he made
vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times
מִכְסֶה֙a covering
mikhsehH4372 →16 times
לָאֹ֔הֶלfor the tent
laohelH168 →345 times
עֹרֹ֥תskins of
ʾorotH5785 →99 times
אֵלִ֖יםrams
ʾelimH352 →187 times
מְאָדָּמִ֑יםdyed red
meadamimH119 →10 times
וּמִכְסֵ֛הand a covering of
umikhsehH4372 →16 times
עֹרֹ֥תskins of
ʾorotH5785 →99 times
תְּחָשִׁ֖יםdolphins
techashimH8476 →14 times
מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃ סfrom to above <towards>
milmaelahH4605 →140 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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 26:14Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
it leads to
- Exodus 25:5
ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;
- Numbers 4:10
Then they shall wrap it and all its utensils inside a covering of fine leather and put it on the carrying frame.
- Ezekiel 16:10
I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
- Psalms 121:4–5
Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
- Psalms 27:5
For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
- Exodus 25:5
Where this verse is studied
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About Exodus
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.