Exodus 25:4

Verse 4. Scarlet twice dyed. Aq. and Sym. have transparent. This colour is often confounded with purple, as our Saviour’s robe is styled scarlet by S. Matthew 27:28; and purple by Saint John 19:2. It was dyed with a worm called shani in Hebrew Saint Jerome ep. ad Fabiol.—Fine linen, byssus. Hebrew shesh, “or six folds,” or it may mean cotton, which was highly esteemed by the ancients; (Arab. version. Herod.) and it is not probable that Moses would have passed over it unnoticed. Calmet.