Bible Strands
Exodus 26:14
Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God issues architectural instructions to Moses regarding the outer layers of the tabernacle. This command follows the specification of the tent curtains and precedes the details for the acacia wood frames.
The words — The text repeats מִכְסֶה (mikhseh), literally "a covering," to designate two distinct protective layers. The materials are specified as עֹרֹת אֵילִם מְאָדְּמִים ('orot 'elim me'adde'mim), meaning "skins of rams dyed red."
The thread — The identical materials and construction order recur in Exodus 25:5, 35:7, and 36:19. Each reference reiterates the requirement for the tent's outer coverings without adding new specifications.
Why it lands — The text requires exact compliance with prescribed materials for the sacred structure. A reader must apply the command by recognizing that the physical construction follows a fixed pattern without substitution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
Cross-references
- Exodus 36:19 Additionally, he made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
- Exodus 25:5 ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;
- Exodus 35:7 ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;
- Exodus 35:23 Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.
- Exodus 39:34 the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering;
- Numbers 4:5 Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.
- 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.
- 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.
- Psalms 121:4 Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
- Isaiah 4:6 a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.