OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 25:5

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rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

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Verse 5. Setim-wood. The wood of a tree that grows in the wilderness, which is said to be incorruptible, ( Challoner.) as the Septuagint intimate. It is perhaps the Acacia, which is very black and hard. Saint Jerome in Joel iii. 18, says it resembles our white thorn.

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or, fine leather

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