Rams Skins
Rams Skins
DYED RED ( [Exo 25:5; Exo 35:7 ], oroth elim mne.oddacmin; Sept. ; Vulg. pelles arietum rubricatce) formed part of the materials that the Israelites were ordered to present as offerings for the making of the tabernacle (Exo 25:5), of which they served as the outer covering, there being under the rams’ skins another covering of badgers’ skins. SEE TABERNACLE. The words may be rendered red rams’ skins, and then may be understood as the produce of the African audad. the Ovis tragelaphus of naturalists, whereof the bearded sheep are a domesticated race. The tragelaphus is a distinct species of sheep, having a shorter form than the common species, and incipient tear-pits. Its normal color is red, from bright chestnut to rufous chocolate, which last is the cause of the epithet purple being given to it by the poets. Dr. Harris thinks that the skins in question were tanned and colored crimson; for it is well known that what is now termed red morocco was manufactured in the remotest ages in Libya, especially about the Tritonian Lake, where the original aegis, or goat-skin breastplate of Jupiter and Minerva, was dyed bright red; and the Egyptians had most certainly red leather in use, for their antique paintings show harnessmakers cutting it into slips for the collars of horses and furniture of chariots. It is much more probable, however, that the skins were those of the domestic breed of rams, which, as Rashi says, were dyed red after they were prepared. SEE RAM.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Rams’ Skins
The skin of the sheep, roughly tanned with all the wool on, is the common winter jacket of the shepherd or peasant, the ram’s being considered especially desirable (compare Heb 11:37). Hence, the appropriateness of these skins in the covering of the tabernacle (Exo 25:5, etc.). See TABERNACLE; DYE, DYEING.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Rams’ Skins
Red Rams’ Skins occurs in Exo 25:5; Exo 35:7. There is little doubt that the red rams’ skins here noticed are to be understood as the produce of the African Aoudad, the Ovis tragelaphus of naturalists, whereof the bearded sheep are a domesticated race. We agree with Dr. Mason Harris, that the skins in question were most likely tanned and colored crimson.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Rams Skins
These, dyed red, formed a covering for the tabernacle, over which were placed badgers’ skins, q.v. Exo 25:5; Exo 26:14; Exo 35:7; Exo 35:23; Exo 36:19; Exo 39:34 .