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Exodus 25:5
5rams’ skins dyed red, porpoise skins, acacia wood,
Exodus 25:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
- New International Version (NIV)ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood;
- English Standard Version (ESV)tanned rams' skins, goatskins, acacia wood,
- New King James Version (NKJV)ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia wood;
Context of Exodus 25:5
3This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 4blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, fine twisted linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, porpoise skins, acacia wood, 6[olive] oil for lighting, balsam for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 7onyx stones and setting stones for the [priest’s] ephod and for the breastpiece.
Read all of Exodus 25Exodus 25:5 word by word
וְעֹרֹ֨ת אֵילִ֧ם מְאָדָּמִ֛ים וְעֹרֹ֥ת תְּחָשִׁ֖ים וַעֲצֵ֥י שִׁטִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Exodus 25:5
- Exodus 26:14You shall make a third covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a fourth covering above that of porpoise skins.
- Exodus 26:15“Then you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright [as a trellis-like frame].
- Exodus 27:1“And you shall make the altar [for burnt offerings] of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.
- Exodus 36:20Bezalel made boards of acacia wood for the upright framework of the tabernacle.
Commentaries on Exodus 25:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Rams' skins dyed red - מאדמים אילם ערת oroth eylim meoddamim, literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact attested by many respectable travelers, that in the Levant sheep are often to be met with that have red or violet-coloured fleeces. And almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing. Homer describes the rams of Polyphemus as having a violet-coloured fleece. ̈́ ̈́, ,<-144 , , . Odyss., lib. ix., ver. 425. "Strong were the rams, with native purple…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-9Verses 1-9 Yahweh had redeemed the Israelites from bondage. He had made a covenant with them and had given them laws. He had promised, on condition of their obedience, to accept them as His own “peculiar treasure,” as “a kingdom of priests and an holy nation” Exodus 19:5-6. And now He was ready visibly to testify that He made his abode with them. He claimed to have a dwelling for Himself, which was to be in external form a tent of goats‘ hair Exodus 19:4…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-9These instructions first list the materials that the Israelites could give to build the tabernacle (25:3–7). Next, the instructions describe the tabernacle from the center and move outward. They begin with the ark of the covenant (also called the ark of the Testimony, 25:10–22; 27:9–19). Two items are described later. These are the altar of incense inside the sanctuary and the bronze basin in the courtyard (30:1–10, 17–21). These items appear in the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. badgers' skins--The badger was an unclean animal, and is not a native of the East--rather some kind of fish, of the leather of which sandals are made in the East. [See on Ex 39:34 and Eze 16:10.] shittim wood--or Shittah (Is 41:19), the acacia, a shrub which grows plentifully in the deserts of Arabia, yielding a light, strong, and beautiful wood, in long planks.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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