| Geneva Study Bible And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and {c} shittim wood, (c) Which is thought to be a kindred of Cedar, which will not rot. Wesley's Notes 25:5 Shittim - wood - A kind of wood growing in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia, very durable and precious. Scofield Reference Notes Margin shittim wood i.e. acacia. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 5. badgers' skins-The badger was an unclean animal, and is not a native of the East-rather some kind of fish, of the leather of which sandals are made in the East. [See on [23]Ex 39:34 and [24]Eze 16:10.] shittim wood-or Shittah (Isa 41:19), the acacia, a shrub which grows plentifully in the deserts of Arabia, yielding a light, strong, and beautiful wood, in long planks. 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. | 
