Exodus 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.[1] 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.
[1] 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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