Exodus 36:18-20

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁸He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together into one whole.

¹⁹He made a covering for the tent of ^[a]rams’ skins tanned red, and above it a covering of dolphin or porpoise skins.

²⁰He made boards of acacia wood for the upright framework of the tabernacle.

Exodus 36:19 The final coverings of the tabernacle tent are not to be confused with the second one of goats’ hair (Exod. 36:14). There were four distinct coverings of the tabernacle tent: 1. A covering of fine twined linen woven with blue, purple, and scarlet, with figures of cherubim upon it. It was made of two long pieces, one running from north to south, the other from east to west [and overlapping for the ceiling] (Exod. 26:1, 6; 36:8ff.). 2. Over this a covering of woven goats’ hair was thrown (Exod. 26:7; 36:14). 3. A third covering of rams’ skins made red (Exod. 26:14; 36:19). 4. And “above it” another covering of dolphin or porpoise skins, weighing the others down and giving perfect protection from the weather (Exod. 26:14; 36:19).