Reading slowly and thinking as you go makes some things kinda jump out, for instance:
When the Israelites were building the Tabernacle, they, per instructions, had to include quite a collection of badger skins. Were they what I know as badgers? If so, that was probably a slightly dangerous order to fill.
The English badger isn't quite as feisty as the North American one, so I've been told. 'Have no idea what a Sinai badger may have been like.
Yet we know what the badgers represented, both alive, and as hides --- the latter being humility. The tabernacle was a big 'ol gaudy thing otherwise. Cloaked in the humility of slain "sin".
Getting rid of the things might have made it safer for the people on a simple physical level, too, once the things were gone from the land where the people traveled and bivouacked.
Could you imagine your nine-year old daughter trudging to the outskirts of the camp, in the dark, carrying a small trowel-like spatula to to dig a small hole, then move dirt back to cover her own bodily wastes --- and somewhere along the line encountering a badger? It could tear her up. Much like like sin can wound us, body & soul.
It would hardly matter if one accompanied her, for the little nocturnal beasties are low to the ground, quiet, almost completely blend in with the surroundings (particularly in the dark) and quick. Whatever damage would be done, would happen in a flash, before intervention could prevent.