John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:7
And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair ,.... Jarchi calls it the flower or down of goats, the softer and finer part of their hair, which was spun by women, as appears from Exodus 35:26 , and was made up into a stuff somewhat like our camelot; these curtains were coarser than the former, and were made to be put over them, to preserve them from the weather, as it follows: to be a covering upon the tabernacle : which, by the curtains of linen coupled together, became one tabernacle,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 26:7-14
Moses is here ordered to make a double covering for the tabernacle, that it might not rain in, and that the beauty of those fine curtains might not be damaged. 1. There was to be a covering of hair camlet curtains, which were somewhat larger every way than the inner curtains, because they were to enclose them, and probably were stretched out at some little distance from them, Exod. 26:7 These were coupled together with brass clasps. The stuff being less valuable, the tacks were so; but the... read more