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Exodus 25:5
5red leather from sheep's skins and other good leather; wood from acacia trees;
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
3These are the gifts that you must receive from the people as an offering: gold, silver and bronze; 4blue, purple and red material; good linen and goat's hair; red leather from sheep's skins and other good leather; wood from acacia trees; 6olive oil for the lamps; spices for the special oil and for incense with a nice smell; 7onyx and other jewels to fix on the priest's ephod and his 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 26:14Use red leather from sheep's skins to cover the tent. Then use another kind of good leather to cover the red leather.
- Exodus 26:15Use acacia wood to make boards to hold up the tabernacle.
- Exodus 27:1Use acacia wood to make an altar. It must be square, 2.2 metres long and 2.2 metres wide. It must be 1.3 metres high.
- Exodus 36:20They used acacia wood to make the boards that would hold up 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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