Exodus 25:4
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New International Version (©1984)
blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;

New Living Translation (©2007)
blue, purple, and scarlet thread; fine linen and goat hair for cloth;

English Standard Version (©2001)
blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
blue, purple and scarlet material, fine linen, goat hair,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
violet, purple, and bright red yarn, fine linen, goats' hair,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

American King James Version
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

American Standard Version
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats hair ,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

Darby Bible Translation
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' hair,

English Revised Version
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;

Webster's Bible Translation
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair.

World English Bible
blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,

Young's Literal Translation
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' hair,

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Blue, and purple, and scarlet - i. e. the material dyed with these colors. The Jewish tradition has been very generally received that this material was wool. Compare Hebrews 9:19 with Leviticus 14:4, Leviticus 14:49, etc. When spun and dyed by the women, it was delivered in the state of yarn; and the weaving and embroidering was left to Aholiab and his assistants, Exodus 35:25, Exodus 35:35. The "blue" and "purple" dye are usually thought to have been obtained from shell-fish, the "scarlet" from the cochineal insect of the holm-oak.

Fine linen - The fine flax or the manufactured linen, for which Egypt was famous Ezekiel 27:7, and which the Egyptians were in the habit of using for dresses of state Genesis 41:42. It was used as the groundwork of the figured curtains of the tabernacle as well as of the embroidered hangings of the tent and the court. See Exodus 35:35.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Blue - תכלת techeleth, generally supposed to mean an azure or sky color; rendered by the Septuagint ὑακινθον, and by the Vulgate hyacinthum, a sky-blue or deep violet.

Purple - ארגמן argaman, a very precious color, extracted from the purpura or murex, a species of shell-fish, from which it is supposed the famous Tyrian purple came, so costly, and so much celebrated in antiquity. See this largely described, and the manner of dyeing it, in Pliny, Hist. Nat., lib. ix., c. 60-65, edit. Bipont.

Scarlet - תולעת tolaath, signifies a worm, of which this colouring matter was made; and, joined with שני shani, which signifies to repeat or double, implies that to strike this color the wool or cloth was twice dipped: hence the Vulgate renders the original coccum bis tinctum, "scarlet twice dyed;" and to this Horace refers, Odar., lib. ii., od. 16, v. 35:

- Te Bis Afro Murice

Tinctae Vestiunt Lanae -

"Thy robes the twice dyed purple stains."

It is the same color which the Arabs call al kermez, whence the French cramoisi, and the English crimson. On this subject much may be seen in Bochart, Calmet, and Scheuchzer.

Fine linen - שש shesh; whether this means linen, cotton, or silk, is not agreed on among interpreters. Because שש shesh signifies six, the rabbins suppose that it always signifies the fine linen of Egypt, in which six folds constituted one thread; and that when a single fold was meant, בד bad is the term used. See Clarke's note on Genesis 41:42.

Goats' hair - עזים izzim, goats, but used here elliptically for goats' hair. In different parts of Asia Minor, Syria, Cilicia, and Phrygia, the goats have long, fine, and beautiful hair, in some cases almost as fine as silk, which they shear at proper times, and manufacture into garments. From Virgil, Georg. iii., v. 305-311, we learn that goats' hair manufactured into cloth was nearly of equal value with that formed from wool.

Hae quoque non cura nobis leviore tuendae

Nec minor usus erit: quamvis Milesia magno

Vellera mutentur, Tyrios incocta rubores.

Nec minus interea barbas incanaque menta

Cinyphii tondent hirci, setasque comantes,

continued...


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And blue, and purple, and scarlet,.... The Jewish doctors are much divided about the sense of the words so rendered by us; some will have one colour, and some another meant; but, according to those learned men, who have taken much pains in searching into the meaning of them, as Bochart and Braunius, it appears that our version of them is most correct: and by these we are not to understand the colours themselves, which could not be brought, nor even the materials for dying them are intended; but wool, or clothes, either silken or linen of those colours: of the former the apostle has taught us to expound them, Hebrews 9:19 and so Jarchi interprets them of wool thus died, and Josephus (a) also; which was made up into yarn, and wove, and was much used in the garments of the priests, in the curtains of the tabernacle, and in the vail between the holy and the most holy place:

and fine linen; the best of which was made in Egypt only, as Aben Ezra says, and much wore there, especially by the priests; and they had such an abundance of it that they traded to other nations with it, see Isaiah 19:9 and of which the Israelites might bring a considerable quantity with them out of Egypt; and

goats' hair; though the word hair is not in the text, it is rightly supplied, as it is by the Septuagint version, and others, for not goats themselves, but their hair must be meant; of this the curtains for the covering of the tabernacle were made; Jarchi interprets it the down of goats, the short, small, fine hair that grows under the other.

(a) Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 1.


Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

תּכלת, ὑάκινθος, purple of a dark blue shade, approaching black rather than bright blue. ארגּמן, πορφύρα (Chald. ארגּון, 2 Chron, Exodus 2:6; Daniel 5:7, Daniel 5:16; - Sanskrit, rgaman or rgavan, colore rubro praeditus), true purple of a dark red colour. שׁני תּולעת, literally the crimson prepared from the dead bodies and nests of the glow-worm,

(Note: Glanzwurm: "the Linnean name is coccus ilicis. It frequents the boughs of a species of ilex; on these it lays its eggs in groups, which become covered with a kind of down." Smith's Dictionary, Art. Colours. - Tr.)

then the scarlet-red purple, or crimson. שׁשׁ, βύσσος, from שׁוּשׁ to be white, a fine white cotton fabric, not linen, muslin, or net. עזים goats, here goats' hair (τρίχες αἰγείαι, lxx).


Geneva Study Bible

And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,


Wesley's Notes

25:4 Blue, and purple, and scarlet - Materials of those colours.


King James Translators' Notes

fine...: or, silk


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. goats' hair-or leather of goats' skin.


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:1-9 God chose the people of Israel to be a peculiar people to himself, above all people, and he himself would be their King. He ordered a royal palace to be set up among them for himself, called a sanctuary, or holy place, or habitation. There he showed his presence among them. And because in the wilderness they dwelt in tents, this royal palace was ordered to be a tabernacle, that it might move with them. The people were to furnish Moses with the materials, by their own free will. The best use we can make of our worldly wealth, is to honour God with it in works of piety and charity. We should ask, not only, What must we do? but, What may we do for God? Whatever they gave, they must give it cheerfully, not grudgingly, for God loves a cheerful giver, 2Co 9:7. What is laid out in the service of God, we must reckon well bestowed; and whatsoever is done in God's service, must be done by his direction.


Exodus 25:3 These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
Exodus 25:5 ram skins dyed red and hides of sea cows; acacia wood;
Exodus 28:5 Have them use gold, and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
Exodus 28:6 "Make the ephod of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen--the work of a skilled craftsman.
Ezekiel 27:7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail and served as your banner; your awnings were of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah.

Best Blue Byssus Fine Goat Goats Hair Linen Material Purple Red Scarlet Stuff Twined Yarn


And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

blue. Techaileth, generally supposed to mean an azure or sky-colour; fine linen, or silk Ge 41:42 Eze 16:10 Re 19:8

Exodus Chapter 25 Verse 4

Alphabetical: and blue fine goat hair linen material purple scarlet yarn

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