_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, HEW THEE TWO TABLES OF STONE LIKE UNTO THE FIRST: AND I WILL WRITE UPON THESE TABLES THE WORDS THAT WERE IN THE FIRST TABLES, WHICH THOU BRAKEST._ Hew thee two tables of stone. God having been reconciled to repentant Israel through the earnest intercession, the succes... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BE READY IN THE MORNING, AND COME UP IN THE MORNING UNTO MOUNT SINAI, AND PRESENT THYSELF THERE TO ME IN THE TOP OF THE MOUNT._ In the top of the mount - not absolutely the highest peak; for as the cloud of the shechinah usually abode on the summit, and yet (Exodus 34:5) it "descended," the pl... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NO MAN SHALL COME UP WITH THEE, NEITHER LET ANY MAN BE SEEN THROUGHOUT ALL THE MOUNT; NEITHER LET THE FLOCKS NOR HERDS FEED BEFORE THAT MOUNT._ No man ... neither ... flocks nor herds. Although no details are given, there is great probability that the arrangements made previous to the first pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE HEWED TWO TABLES OF STONE LIKE UNTO THE FIRST; AND MOSES ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND WENT UP UNTO MOUNT SINAI, AS THE LORD HAD COMMANDED HIM, AND TOOK IN HIS HAND THE TWO TABLES OF STONE._ Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai. In the sultry climate of Arabi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, AND PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD._ The Lord descended in the cloud. After graciously hovering over the tabernacle, it seems to have resumed its usual position on the summit of the mount, and to have made a slight descent visibly in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD PASSED BY BEFORE HIM, AND PROCLAIMED, THE LORD, THE LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS, LONGSUFFERING, AND ABUNDANT IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH,_ The Lord passed by. In this remarkable scene God performed what He had promised to Moses the day before. PROCLAIMED, THE LORD ... MERCIFUL AND GRAC... [ Continue Reading ]
_KEEPING MERCY FOR THOUSANDS, FORGIVING INIQUITY AND TRANSGRESSION AND SIN, AND THAT WILL BY NO MEANS CLEAR THE GUILTY; VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN, AND UPON THE CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, UNTO THE THIRD AND TO THE FOURTH GENERATION._ Keeping mercy for thousands. The Septuagint... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES MADE HASTE, AND BOWED HIS HEAD TOWARD THE EARTH, AND WORSHIPPED._ Moses ... bowed ... and worshipped. In the East people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by; while in the West they take off their hats and shout.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, IF NOW I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT, O LORD, LET MY LORD, I PRAY THEE, GO AMONG US; FOR IT IS A STIFFNECKED PEOPLE; AND PARDON OUR INIQUITY AND OUR SIN, AND TAKE US FOR THINE INHERITANCE._ He said, If now I have found grace. On this proclamation Moses, in the overflowing benevolenc... [ Continue Reading ]
_OBSERVE THOU THAT WHICH I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY: BEHOLD, I DRIVE OUT BEFORE THEE THE AMORITE, AND THE CANAANITE, AND THE HITTITE, AND THE PERIZZITE, AND THE HIVITE, AND THE JEBUSITE._ Behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite ... (As to the absolute right of God, as the Creator and Proprietor of... [ Continue Reading ]
_TAKE HEED TO THYSELF, LEST THOU MAKE A COVENANT WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND WHITHER THOU GOEST, LEST IT BE FOR A SNARE IN THE MIDST OF THEE:_ Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. Since the Canaanites were gross idolaters, and their rites were infam... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THOU SHALT WORSHIP NO OTHER GOD: FOR THE LORD, WHOSE NAME IS JEALOUS, IS A JEALOUS GOD:_ Thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous god. The first commandment is frequently taken as a test of adherence to the national covenant. While the breach of any pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_LEST THOU MAKE A COVENANT WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND, AND THEY GO A WHORING AFTER THEIR GODS, AND DO SACRIFICE UNTO THEIR GODS, AND ONE CALL THEE, AND THOU EAT OF HIS SACRIFICE;_ They go a whoring after their gods. This is the first instance of the use of a phrase which occurs very frequentl... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT MAKE THEE NO MOLTEN GODS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT OBSERVE THE FEAST OF WEEKS, OF THE FIRSTFRUITS OF WHEAT HARVEST, AND THE FEAST OF INGATHERING AT THE YEAR'S END._ The feast of ingathering - (see the note at Exodus 23:16, and further at Leviticus 23:24; Deuteronomy 16:13.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_THRICE IN THE YEAR SHALL ALL YOUR MEN CHILDREN APPEAR BEFORE THE LORD GOD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL._ Thrice in the year shall all your men-children appear before the Lord God - i:e., in the central place of national worship. While the males faithfully obeyed this injunction; in celebrating the national... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT OFFER THE BLOOD OF MY SACRIFICE WITH LEAVEN; NEITHER SHALL THE SACRIFICE OF THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER BE LEFT UNTO THE MORNING._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, WRITE THOU THESE WORDS: FOR AFTER THE TENOR OF THESE WORDS I HAVE MADE A COVENANT WITH THEE AND WITH ISRAEL._ Write thou these words - i:e., the ceremonial and judicial injunctions comprehended above (Exodus 34:11); while the re-writing of the ten commandments on the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN MOSES CAME DOWN FROM MOUNT SINAI WITH THE TWO TABLES OF TESTIMONY IN MOSES' HAND, WHEN HE CAME DOWN FROM THE MOUNT, THAT MOSES WIST NOT THAT THE SKIN OF HIS FACE SHONE WHILE HE TALKED WITH HIM._ Moses came down ... with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand - probabl... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN AARON AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAW MOSES, BEHOLD, THE SKIN OF HIS FACE SHONE; AND THEY WERE AFRAID TO COME NIGH HIM._ Afraid to come nigh him. Their fear arose from a sense of guilt; the beaming radiance of his countenance made him appear to their awe-struck consciences a flaming mi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES CALLED UNTO THEM; AND AARON AND ALL THE RULERS OF THE CONGREGATION RETURNED UNTO HIM: AND MOSES TALKED WITH THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TILL MOSES HAD DONE SPEAKING WITH THEM, HE PUT A VAIL ON HIS FACE._ And till Moses had done speaking ... he put a veil on his face, х_ MACWEH_ (H4533)] - a face covering, a veil worn in Arabia, different from х_ HATSAA`IYP_ (H6809)] the word used in the Pentateuch for this article of attire as... [ Continue Reading ]