Exodus 31:1-6
The nomination of Bĕẓal"çl and Oholiab.... [ Continue Reading ]
The nomination of Bĕẓal"çl and Oholiab.... [ Continue Reading ]
_called by name_ i.e. specially chosen: cf. Isaiah 45:3-4 (of Cyrus). _Bĕẓal"çl_ i.e. -In the shadow (i.e. protection, Numbers 14:9 RVm.) of God"; cf. the Ass. name Ina-ṣilli-Bel, -In the shadow of Bel" (cited by Bä.). There are no sufficient grounds for identifying the Ḥur here with the Ḥur of Exod... [ Continue Reading ]
_the spirit of God_ Regarded in the OT. as the source of any _exceptional_power or activity of man, as well as of supernatural spiritual gifts: see e.g. (in different connexions) Genesis 41:38; Numbers 11:17; Deuteronomy 34:9 (of administrative capacity), Judges 3:10 1 Samuel 11:6; 1 Samuel 16:13; M... [ Continue Reading ]
_devise cunning works devise_ WORKS OF SKILL (_Speaker's Comm._); so Exodus 35:32; Exodus 35:35. Lit. _devise_(or _design_, Exodus 26:1) _devices_(Jeremiah 18:18); here of skill in contriving and executing works of art, as in 2 Chronicles 26:15 mechanical contrivances (Heb. _devices_[EVV. _engines_,... [ Continue Reading ]
_in gold, and in silver, and in_ BRONZE, &c. such as would be needed for carrying out the preceding body of directions (Exodus 25:10 ff.; Exodus 26:15 ff.; Exodus 28:9-11; Exodus 28:21, &c.).... [ Continue Reading ]
_for setting_ See Exodus 25:7; Exodus 28:17; Exodus 28:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
Oholiab to be Bĕẓal"çl's associate. The _name_-Oholiab" is peculiar, and perhaps not genuinely Hebrew (Gray, _Heb. Pr. Names_, p. 246): it means apparently _The father_(God) _is my tent_; cf. Phoen. אהלבעל, אהלמלך, _Baal_, or _the King, is a tent_; Sabaean אהלעתתר, אהלאל, - _Athtar is a tent, God is... [ Continue Reading ]
Enumeration of the articles to be made (see chs. 25 28, 30).... [ Continue Reading ]
_the table_ i.e. the table of the Presence-bread, Exodus 25:23-30. _the pure candlestick_ i.e. made of pure gold (Exodus 25:31): so Exodus 39:37; Leviticus 24:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the garments_ OF PLAITED (?) WORK] in the Heb. a peculiar expression, of most uncertain meaning, not found before, but recurring (with the addition, -for ministering in the holy place") in Exodus 35:19; Exodus 39:1; Exodus 39:41 †. No root שרד occurs in Heb.: in post-Bibl. Hebrew and Aramaic (see _... [ Continue Reading ]
_sweet spices_ FRAGRANT POWDERS: see on Exodus 30:34. 12 17 (cf. Exodus 35:2-3). The observance of the sabbath inculcated. The section has in _vv._13, 14a (see the notes) strong affinities with the -Law of Holiness," or H (the older laws embedded in P, in Leviticus 17-26); and there is little doubt... [ Continue Reading ]
_Speak thou also_ AND THOU (emph.), _speak thou_(Exodus 27:20). _Verily_ cf. on Exodus 12:15 (-surely"). _ye shall keep my Sabbaths_ the sabbaths sacred to me. Note exactly the same words in H, Leviticus 19:3; Leviticus 19:30; Leviticus 26:2: -my sabbaths," also, often in Ezek. (Ezekiel 20:12-13; E... [ Continue Reading ]
_holy_ cf. Exodus 16:23 (P), Exodus 20:8 (E), Isaiah 58:13; Ezekiel 20:20, &c. _profaneth_ To -profane" is characteristic like its opposite, to -sanctify" of H, Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 19:8; Leviticus 19:12; Leviticus 19:29;... [ Continue Reading ]
How the sabbath is to be observed, viz. by cessation from work. Cf. Exodus 20:9 f. _a sabbath of_ ENTIRE REST] So Exodus 35:2; Leviticus 23:3 _al._: see on Exodus 16:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wherefore_ The Heb. is simply AND. _to observe to_ HOLD. See on Exodus 12:47. _a perpetual_(or, as the same Heb. is rendered elsewhere, _everlasting) covenant_ An expression frequent in P: Genesis 9:16 (of the rainbow), Genesis 17:7; Genesis 17:13; Genesis 17:19 (of circumcision), Leviticus 24:8,... [ Continue Reading ]
The main thoughts of _vv._13 15 repeated, and emphasized, in P's manner: cf. on Exodus 6:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
_for_… _earth verbatim_as Exodus 20:11. _rested_ DESISTED (from work), or KEPT SABBATH: see on Exodus 20:8. _was refreshed_ lit. _took breath_, a strong anthropomorphism: elsewhere used only of men, Exodus 23:12; 2 Samuel 16:14 †. 18A. _communing_ SPEAKING. See on Exodus 25:22. _tables of the tes... [ Continue Reading ]