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Selected Verse: Exodus 26:7 - King James

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Ex 26:7 King James And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
curtains of goats' hair--These coarse curtains were to be one more in number than the others, and to extend a yard lower on each side, the use of them being to protect and conceal the richer curtains.
 
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14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,