Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Fine linen, with broidered work from Egypt, was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail. The ancients embroidered their sails often at great expense, especially the Egyptians, whose linen, still preserved in mummies, is of the finest texture.
Blue and purple from the isles of Elishah - Greece; so called from Elis, a large and ancient division of Peloponese. Pausanias says that the best of linen was produced in it, and in no other part of Greece; called by Homer 'Alisium.'
Was that which covered thee - thy awning.