* a covering.
# 36:19; Nu 4:5; Ps 27:5; 121:4,5; Isa 4:6; 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.
# 25:5; 35:7,23; 39:34; Nu 4:10; Eze 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 {┴oth,} skins, after {meoddamim,} red, in ch.
25:5.
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