a covering: Exodus 36:19; Numbers 4:5; Psalms 27:5, Psalms 121:4-5; Isaiah 4:6, Isaiah 25:4
rams' skins dyed red: Oroth ailim meoddamim:, literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact, attested by many respectable travellers, that in the Levant, sheep are often met with having red or violet coloured fleeces. Almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing. Exodus 25:5, Exodus 35:7, Exodus 35:23, Exodus 39:34; Numbers 4:10; Ezekiel 16:10
badgers' skins: Oroth techashim:, which nearly all the ancient versions have taken to be the name of a colour, though they differ very much with regard to the particular colour intended: the LXX, Vulgate, and Coptic, have skins dyed of a violet colour; the Syriac, azure; and the Arabic, black; and Bochart contends for the hysginus, a very deep blue. It may, however, denote an animal; for Dr. Geddes remarks, had the sacred writer meant to express only a variety of colour, he would hardly have repeated oroth:, skins, after meoddamim:, red, in Exodus 25:5.