No one really knows. As Gordon Wenham says in his commentary on the book of Numbers:1 As the different translations make plain, it is uncertain what the outer cover was made of. Hebrew taḥas (RSV goatskin) was taken by the early versions to be a colour. But early Jewish scholars suggested that taḥas was the […]
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