Where were the seal skins placed on the tabernacle?
The seal skins, called badger skins in the text, were placed on the outside of the tabernacle tent. The biblical badger is identified as a seal, a seawater animal, and its hide covered the outer layer of the small tabernacle tent.
Les explains that the word "badgers" in the King James text does not refer to the North American animal but to a seal, a seawater animal known in the Middle East. He emphasizes that the hide of these seals would be put on the outside of the little tabernacle tent, and he says he will point that out when they come to it. The surrounding passage in chapter 25 lists the willing offering of materials, including ram skins dyed red and badger skins, which the Israelites had obtained when they spoiled Egypt.
And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
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What were the badger skins in the tabernacle actually made from?
The 'badger' skins of Exodus 25 were actually seal skins, because the North American badger is an animal not known in the Middle East.