Exodus 26:7-14
curtains Exod 35:26, Exod 36:14-18; Num 4:25; Ps 45:13; 1Pet 3:4, 1Pet 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. Exod 25:4, Exod 35:6, Exod 35:23; Num 31:20 a Exod 26:14; Isa 4:5 eleven Exod 26:1, Exod 26:9, Exod 26:12 length of one curtain Exod 26:2, Exod 26:13 five curtains by themselves Exod 26:3 fifty loops Exod 26:4-6 tent or, covering, Exod 26:3, Exod 26:6 shall hang over Exod 26:9 a cubit Exod 26:2, Exod 26:8 of that which remaineth Heb. in the remainder or surplusage a covering Exod 36:19; Num 4:5; Ps 27:5, Ps 121:4-5; Isa 4:6, Isa 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. Exod 25:5, Exod 35:7, Exod 35:23, Exod 39:34; Num 4:10; Ezek 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 oroth, skins, after meoddamim, red, in Exod 25:5.
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