36:14 ¶ And he made curtains of goats’ hair
for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. 15 The length of one curtain was thirty
cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains
were of one size. 16 And he
coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost
edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of
the curtain which coupleth the second. 18
And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together,
that it might be one. 19 And he made a
covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of
badgers’ skins above that. 20 And
he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up. 21 The length of a board was ten cubits,
and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half. 22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one
from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty
boards for the south side southward: 24
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets
under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his
two tenons. 25 And for the other side of
the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
26 And their forty sockets of silver;
two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward
he made six boards. 28 And two boards
made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. 29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled
together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both
the corners. 30 And there were eight
boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every
board two sockets. 31 And he made bars
of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 32 And five bars for the boards of the other
side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the
sides westward. 33 And he made the
middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other. 34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and
made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid
the bars with gold.
Notes made previously are relevant
here. Goats’ hair will be used for
the curtains for the tent over the tabernacle. Modern-day Bedouins have tents,
tent-ropes, and rugs made from spun goats’ hair. It was used for pillows.
1Samuel 19:13 And Michal
took an image, and laid it in
the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair
for his bolster, and covered it
with a cloth.
Writers talk about the goat hair of
Asia being very fine and long and how it feels like silk. It was combed off,
they write, rather than sheared. Of course, there was coarser goats’ hair which
was used in the clothing of the poor, according to some writers.
Rams’
skins dyed red and badgers’ skins taken
together suggest that they were used for their being impervious to the
infrequent rain. However, scientists who study ancient climate patterns say
that there were periods of wet and dry and we are in a dry period now. There
could have been much more frequent rain storms during the time of the Exodus.
Their dating methods, often hinged to assumptions and variables that can be questioned
and should be, should not be taken as absolute facts. Evidence is evidence, but
remember, evidence is useless unless it is interpreted. The interpretation is
where the vagaries of human viewpoints, worldviews, and culturally mandated
assumptions interfere, not just education. (27) Just remember that the world is
drying out after the Flood of Noah’s time in a process that is still going on
today.
Shittim
wood, according
to Strong’s dictionary, would come from the Acacia tree. The Ark of the
Covenant will be made of this wood.
(27) Abdou Abouelmagd, Mohamed Sultan, Neil C. Sturchio, Farouk
Soliman, Mohamed Rashed, Mohamed Ahmed, Alan E. Kehew, Adam Milewski, & Kyle
Chouinard, “Paleoclimate record in the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer, Sinai
Peninsula, Egypt,” Quaternary Research, 81
(2014) 158–167. http://wrrs.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Abouelmagd-et-al_2014.pdf
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