KJV King James Version
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of] rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers’ skins.
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Exodus 26:14
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of] rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers’ skins.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.
WEB World English Bible
You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
ASV American Standard Version
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and thou hast made a covering for the tent, of rams’ skins made red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above.
Surrounding context — Exodus 26
11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
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.
14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of] rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers’ skins.
15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood standing up.
16 Ten cubits [shall be] the length of a board, and a cubit and a half [shall be] the breadth of one board.
17 Two tenons [shall there be] in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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Exodus 36:19And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering [of] badgers’ skins above [that].Exodus 25:5And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,Exodus 35:23And 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].Isaiah 4:6And 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.Psalm 121:4-5Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.Numbers 4:5And 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 39:34And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,Psalm 27:5For 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.Ezekiel 16:10I 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.Numbers 4:10And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put [it] upon a bar.Isaiah 25:4For 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.Exodus 35:7And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
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