Exodus 26 · Verse 14

Exodus 26:14

And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
Exodus 26:14, King James Version

Exodus 26:14 in other translations

BSBAlso make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
WEBYou shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
ASVAnd thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.
YLTand thou hast made a covering for the tent, of rams' skins made red, and a covering of badgers' skins above.
DARBYAnd thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins over that.
BBEAnd then you are to make a cover for the tent, of sheepskins coloured red, and a cover of leather over that.
WebsterAnd thou shalt make a covering for the tent, of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.

What does Exodus 26:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. a covering ... of rams' skins dyed red--that is, of Turkey red leather. [See on Ex 39:34.]

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 Rams' skins dyed red - See Clarke's note on Exo 25:5. This was the third covering; and what is called the badgers' skins was the fourth. See Clarke's note on Exo 25:5. Why there should have been four coverings does not appear. They might have been designed partly for respect; and partly to keep off dust and dirt, and the extremely fine sand which in that desert rises as it were on every breeze; and partly to keep off the intense heat of the sun, which would otherwise have destroyed the poles, bars, boards, and the whole of the wood work. As to the conjecture of some that "the four coverings were intended the better to keep off the rain," it must appear unfounded to those who know that in that desert rain was rarely ever seen.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 26:7-14

The curtains of meaner materials, being made both longer and broader, covered the others, and were defended by coverings of skins. The whole represents the person and doctrine of Christ, and the church of true Christians, and all heavenly things, which outwardly are mean, but inwardly, and in the sight of God, are glorious and precious.

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Exodus 26:14 in the original Hebrew

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וְעָשִׂ֤יתָve.'a.Si.taand you will makeH6213
מִכְסֶה֙mikh.Seha coveringH4372
לָאֹ֔הֶלla.'O.helfor the tentH168
עֹרֹ֥ת'o.Rotskins ofH5785
אֵילִ֖ם'ei.LimramsH352
מְאָדָּמִ֑יםme.'a.da.Mimdyed redH119
וּמִכְסֵ֛הu.mikh.Sehand a covering ofH4372
עֹרֹ֥ת'o.Rotskins ofH5785
תְּחָשִׁ֖יםte.cha.ShimdolphinsH8476
מִלְמָֽעְלָה\׃\ \פmil.Ma.'e.lahfrom to above <towards>H4605

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Cross references for Exodus 26:14

  • Exodus 36:19

    And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.

  • Exodus 25:5

    And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,

  • Psalms 121:4-5

    Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

  • Exodus 35:7

    And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,

  • Isaiah 4:6

    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.

  • Numbers 4:5

    And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:

  • Exodus 39:34

    And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,

  • Exodus 35:23

    And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them.

  • Ezekiel 16:10

    I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

  • Isaiah 25:4

    For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

  • Psalms 27:5

    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.

  • Numbers 4:10

    And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon a bar.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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 {óroth,} skins, after {meoddamim,} red, in ch. 25:5.

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Context

  • Exodus 26:13

    And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

  • Exodus 26:14

    And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.

  • Exodus 26:15

    And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

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Exodus 26:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Harás también á la tienda una cubierta de cueros de carneros, teñidos de rojo, y una cubierta de cueros de tejones encima.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et tu feras pour la tente une couverture de peaux de béliers teintes en rouge, et une couverture de peaux de taissons par-dessus.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und mache für das Zelt eine Decke von rotgefärbten Widderfellen und eine Decke von Dachsfellen oben darüber.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Facies et operimentum aliud tecto de pellibus arietum rubricatis: et super hoc rursum aliud operimentum de janthinis pellibus.