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A small inoffensive animal, of the bear genus, which remains torpid all winter. It is an inhabitant of cold countries, and is not found in Palestine. Hence many think the "badgers' skins" mentioned Exodus 25:5; 26:14; Ezekiel 16:10 , and elsewhere, as being used for covering the tabernacle and for shoes, were the skins not of this animal, but of a species of seal found in the Red Sea. Burckhardt remarks that he "saw parts of the skin of a large fish, killed on the coast, which was an inch in thickness, and is employed by the Arabs instead of leather for sandals." Others think it was an animal of the antelope species, the skins of which the Jews had obtained in Egypt.
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Badger'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/b/badger.html. 1859.
Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Badger'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/b/badger.html. 1859.
