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Although Elijah did not “eat” the ravens, one wonders why Yahweh would choose an unclean animal
to deliver Elijah’s daily food. It is no different than if a herd of swine had daily brought his food.
There is a variant reading to this passage, however, which resolves this apparent incongruity. The
word for “raven” and the word for “Arab” are spelled similarly in Hebrew.

Some time back I did a study on the word “tent” in the Bible. I found that the Bedouin (Arab) tents
were renowned for being black, made from black goatskins. The raven and the Arab both had an
association with the color black. It was a prominent association, for even as a raven is recognized
by its black feathers, a Bedouin of the desert is recognized by his black tent.

Bedouin Tents

Following is an entry for the word “Tent” in the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.

TENT ('ohel; skene; 'ohel is a derivative of 'ahal, "to be clear," "to shine"; hence, 'ohel, "to be
conspicuous from a distance"): In the great stretches of uncultivated lands in the interior of Syria or
Arabia, which probably have much the same aspect today as in Abraham's time, it is an easy matter
to espy an encampment of roving Bedouin, "a nation .... that dwelleth without care .... that have
neither gates nor bars" (Jer 49:31). The peaks of their black (compare Song 1:5) goats' hair tents
stand out in contrast against the lighter colors of the soil. There seems to be little doubt about the
antiquity of the Arab tent, and one can rightly believe that-the dwelling- places of Abraham, Sarah,
Jacob, and their descendants were made on the same pattern and of the same materials (Gen 4:20;
9:27; 12:8; 13:3; 18:6; 31:25,30; Ps 78:55; Heb 11:9, etc.).

See link:
http://www.bible-history.com/links.php?cat=39&sub=425&cat_name=Manners+%26+Customs
&subcat_name=Tents

In the Song of Solomon the Shunamite compares herself to the black tents of the Arab Bedouins.

Song of Solomon 1:5
"I am black but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar..."

Keep in mind that the ancient Hebrew did not contain vowels. Words were written in consonants