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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Exodus 38

Exodus 38:1

EXODUS CHAPTER 38 The altar of burn offering, with its furniture EXODUS 38:1, laver of brass, EXODUS 38:8. The court, and the hangings thereof, EXODUS 38:9. Bezaleel and Aholiab make all ready, EXODUS 38:22,23. The sums of what the people offered, EXODUS 38:24. No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 38:8

LOOKING-GLASSES, as now they are sometimes made of polished steel, so anciently were made of polished brass, as appears both from sacred and from profane writers. See JOB 37:18 PHILIPPIANS 3:9, &c. The words following seem to note a company of religious women, who in a more peculiar manner devoted t... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 38:18

The HEIGHT relates to its standing or hanging upright, and the BREADTH relates to the hanging itself, and the height of the hanging was taken in the breadth.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 38:21

This doth not belong to the following account of gold and silver, but to the foregoing particulars of holy things relating to the tabernacle, for these only were committed to the care of the _Levites_, as it here follows, but this gold and silver was put into other hands. FOR THE SERVICE OF THE LEVI... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 38:24

Every talent contained three thousand shekels. See GENESIS 23:15 EXODUS 30:13. It is not said that all this gold and following silver were used about the building of the tabernacle, for the people brought _much more than enough_, EXODUS 36:5. And these remains, it is probable, were put into the sacr... [ Continue Reading ]

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