14And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
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And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-14)Moses is here ordered to make a double covering for the tabernacle, that it might not rain in, and that the beauty of those fine curtains might not be damaged. 1. There was to be a covering of hair camlet curtains, which were somewhat larger every way than the inner curtains, because they were to enclose them, and probably were stretched out at some little distance from them, Exod. 26:7 These were…
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