Topic
Sealskin
2 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 25:5ISBE
And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
- Ezekiel 16:10ISBE
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
sel'-skin: The rendering of the Revised Version (British and American) (Ex 25:5; Eze 16:10) for `or tachash, the Revised Version margin "porpoise-skin," the King James Version "badgers' skin." A seal, Monachus albiventer, is found in the Mediterranean, though not in the Red Sea, but it is likely that tachash means the dugong, which is found in the Red Sea.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.