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Exodus 36

Ex. 36:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
a covering
mikceh (Hebrew #4372)
a covering, i.e. weather-boarding
KJV usage: covering.
Pronounce: mik-seh'
Origin: from 3680
r for the tent
'ohel (Hebrew #168)
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)
KJV usage: covering, (dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.
Pronounce: o'-hel
Origin: from 166
of rams’
'ayil (Hebrew #352)
properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree
KJV usage: mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.
Pronounce: ah'-yil
Origin: from the same as 193
skins
`owr (Hebrew #5785)
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
KJV usage: hide, leather, skin.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 5783
dyed red
'adam (Hebrew #119)
to show blood (in the face), i.e. flush or turn rosy
KJV usage: be (dyed, made) red (ruddy).
Pronounce: aw-dam'
, and a covering
mikceh (Hebrew #4372)
a covering, i.e. weather-boarding
KJV usage: covering.
Pronounce: mik-seh'
Origin: from 3680
of badgers’
tachash (Hebrew #8476)
a (clean) animal with fur, probably a species of antelope
KJV usage: badger.
Pronounce: takh'-ash
Origin: probably of foreign derivation
skins
`owr (Hebrew #5785)
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
KJV usage: hide, leather, skin.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 5783
above
ma`al (Hebrew #4605)
properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.
KJV usage: above, exceeding(-ly), forward, on (X very) high, over, up(-on, -ward), very.
Pronounce: mah'al
Origin: from 5927
that.
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Ex. 26:14• 14And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins over that. (Ex. 26:14)

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Badgers Skins,
Dyeing,
Rams' Skins,
Tent

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Ministry on This Verse

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covering.
Ex. 26:14• 14And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins over that. (Ex. 26:14)
rams' skins dyed red.This was the third covering of the tabernacle.
The first and lowermost was made of fine linen, richly embroidered with figures of cherubim, in shades of blue, purple, and scarlet (ver. 8-13).
It is reasonable to suppose, that the right side of this curtain was undermost, and so it formed a beautiful ceiling in the inside of the tabernacle.
The second covering, which lay over the embroidered one, was made of a sort of mohair, (ver. 14-17,) and the fourth, or uppermost one, which was to keep the others from the weather, was made of {tachash,} or badgers' skins.
• In these coverings we have quite an absence of detail—not that they do not exhibit perfection in Him, but the attention is directed to but a few features in each. The skins of the animals would suggest an impervious covering, not to be penetrated by sun or rain. (“The Ram's Skins and Badger' Skins Coverings” by S. Ridout)
• When Abraham went to offer up Isaac as a burnt-offering and God stayed his hand, He provided not a lamb for a burnt-offering, but a ram, “caught in a thicket by his horns.” This is all-significant as we look for the meaning....Christ in the full energy and vigor of a perfect manhood offered Himself as the true Sacrifice, which Isaac could never be. (“The Ram's Skins and Badger' Skins Coverings” by S. Ridout)
• This then is the thought suggested by the ram—Christ in the full vigor of a perfect life, living only for God, and yielding Himself up to Him absolutely in a devotion that was only measured by His death on the cross. (“The Ram's Skins and Badger' Skins Coverings” by S. Ridout)
• {skin} Here we must guard against a thought which has obtained with many, that Christ’s active obedience in His life is imputed to the believer. According to this teaching, man, who owed perfect obedience to the law, could not enter heaven without having fulfilled the word, “do and live.” Having failed utterly to do this, the law-keeping of Christ is imputed to him, so that God accepts Christ’s obedience in place of the sinner’s. Now when we see that it is the skin of the animal which is given for a covering, the thought of mere obedience in life being imputed is set aside. The life had to be given up, death had to come in, and thus the perfect robe of righteousness was secured, even Christ Himself, which includes His perfect obedience in life, His death, and what He now is, as the measure of the believer’s acceptance and standing before God. (“The Ram's Skins and Badger' Skins Coverings” by S. Ridout)
• We come now to the covering of the badgers’ skins, or seal skins, and here the details are still more meager, though doubtless the significance is to be clearly found if we use the divinely-given key. There is some question whether the word is to be rendered “sealskin,” but students agree that it is the skin of some animal that lived in the water. Seals, we are told, abounded on the shores of the Red Sea, so there is no .geographical difficulty in the way....Its skin is impervious to the element in which it lives; its covering thus maintains it in the midst of unnatural surroundings. When we think of our Lord coming down into this world from the light and joy and blessedness of His heavenly home, what a foreign element it must have been for Him to live in! But, by virtue of His absolutely holy nature, our blessed Lord kept everything of Satan’s world out of His heart. Nothing in it appealed to Him. The prince of this world could spread before Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, his seductions were absolutely echoless in that shrine of God, His holy heart. This then is the first thought we gather from sealskin—perfect protection in a hostile element. (“The Ram's Skins and Badger' Skins Coverings” by S. Ridout)
• But we gather another thought from the sealskin covering. It was probably of a brown or dark hue, not repulsive in appearance, but not particularly attractive. For faith, the characteristics which we have been dwelling upon in our Lord are blessedly attractive, but to the natural man, there was “no beauty that we should desire Him” (Isa. 53:2). (“The Ram's Skins and Badger' Skins Coverings” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.

W. Kelly Translation

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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.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)