GOAT, an Animal very well known to every one. It was one of the clean beasts, which the Israelites might both eat and offer in their sacrifices. They cut off its hair in Palestine, and many other places, as they continue to do still at this day in the East, and make Stuffs of it, which serve for tents. Exod. xxv. 4. xxxv. 6, &c. xxxvii. 14.God commanded Moses to make part of the Veils belonging to the Tabernacle of Goats -hair.
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