Hides Of Sea Cows

Their appearance is similar to seals. Because the red sea borders ancient egypt its not surprising that israel used their hides for various purposes.

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Hides of sea cows. The israelites were wandering the desert. Werent the israelites stuck in the middle of the desert when they built. Sea cows are dugongs marine animals abounding on the coral banks of the red sea and in other tropical waters.

Over these they are to spread a scarlet cloth cover that with hides of sea cows and put its poles in place numbers 47 8. And according to my niv bible for the same verse it says everyone who had blue purple or scarlet yarn or fine linen or goat hair ram skins dyed red or hides of sea cows brought them my question is. These are the offerings you are to receive from them.

Within 27 years of discovery by europeans the slow moving and easily caught mammal was hunted into extinction for its meat fat and hide. Much of what is known about its behavior comes from stellers observations on the island documented in his posthumous publication on the beasts of the sea. Sea cows belong to the order sirenia.

Ram skins dyed red and hides of sea cows. And onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece. New american standard 1977 rams skins dyed red porpoise skins acacia wood king james 2000 bible.

Blue purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen. They are called sea cows because they are similar to sea cows as they chew on their food sea grass corals etc for eight hours a day. Basically every part of the tent of meeting at some point or another gets covered in sea cow skins.

Remember for a moment they werent in a big trading area like egypt. Spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense. A dugong grows to 11 feet long with a round head fish like tail and flippers for forelimbs.

Stellers sea cow was named after georg wilhelm steller who first encountered it on vitus berings great northern expedition when the crew became shipwrecked on bering island. Gold silver and bronze. The extremely large size of stellers sea cow functioned as an adaptation for survival in cool waters by providing the animal with a smaller ratio of surface area to volume than tropical sirenians and the thick hide probably provided better insulation.

Rams skins dyed red sea cow hides acacia wood gods word translation rams skins dyed red fine leather acacia wood jps tanakh 1917 and rams skins dyed red and sealskins and acacia wood. For example sea cow hides were among the offerings israelites were required to make to the lord3 and the people made tent coverings from the tough skin4 of course such small localized demand in old testament times would hardly have impacted dugong numbers. There are two kinds of sea cows manatees and dugongs.