What Does Exodus 35:7 Mean in the King James?
And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The red covering shares its Hebrew consonants with the human and the ground, so the sanctuary is made from the very world it holds sacred.
THE MEANING
The sacred dwelling takes shape through material from the living world: ram skins, other hides, and acacia wood. The red-dyed covering echoes the consonants of adam, the human, and adamah, the ground, binding what is set apart to earth-born life.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This verse undoes the idea that what is set apart must be made from something other than ordinary matter: animal hides and desert timber belong to the sacred dwelling.
THE ROOT
מְאָדָּמִים
me'oddamim
GROWS FROM
א־ד־ם
ʾ-d-m
Be red; the color red.
The Hebrew for dyed red carries the אדם consonants also found in adam, human, and adamah, ground. Their shared sound lets red, earth, and human life echo together: the covering belongs to the same material world as the people and the ground.
ALSO GROWS
adam: Human being.
אָדָם
Its consonants echo in the word for red, connecting the covering’s color with earth-born human life.
adamah: Ground, soil.
אֲדָמָה
Its shared consonants bring the ground into the verse’s red coloring, linking the sanctuary’s materials to the earth.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling for God takes form through tangible material from the living world.
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.The red word in Exodus shares the consonants of adam, human, and adamah, ground, the word pair Genesis places together when describing the human formed from soil. That echo ties the sanctuary’s materials to the earth-born life the verse describes.
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