chittim

The knowledge of this fact induced the Deity to command the Israelites to "make no idols nor graven image; neither rear you up a standing image:" but He afterwards made them bring their skill into operation by creating for His worship the ark of the covenant, of chittim wood, and the mercy seat, with cherubims of gold — and appointed to design the work Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, who was skilled to devise cunning works, to work in gold and in silver, and in brass; and in the cutting of stones to set them; and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

Owing to the low price offered for chittims bark the amount peeled in Oregon and Washington this year is limited.

The most superficial observer of lumber knows that there is generally a considerable difference between the wood of trees belonging to different species. Sometimes it is quite small, so that lumbermen have no constitutional objection to working off short leaf for long leaf yellow pine, hemlock for white pine, chittim wood, or yellow cottonwood for poplar and red birch for cherry, if it can be done without detection.

This family is represented in our range by only one species. chittim-wood, the woody buckthorn (Bumelia launginosa).