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Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 26:7

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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The outer tent-cloth, "for the tent over the dwelling," was to consist of eleven lengths of goats' hair, i.e., of cloth made of goats' hair; (Note: The coverings of the tents of the Bedouin Arabs are still made of cloth woven from black goats' hair, which the women spin and weave (see Lynch's Expedition of the United States to the Jordan and Dead Sea).) each piece being thirty cubits long and four broad. Exodus 26:9
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