These Chapter s, which all belong to P, form the sequel to chs. 25 31, and narrate the execution of the instructions there communicated to Moses. In the main, the narrative is repeated _verbatim_from the instructions in chs. 25 31, with the simple substitution of past tenses for future; in two or th... [ Continue Reading ]
_the altar of burnt offering_ for distinction from the altar of incense (Exodus 37:25-28). In Exodus 27:1 -the altar" simply. See introd. to chs. 30 31 (p. 329).... [ Continue Reading ]
(Exodus 27:1-8 a). The altar of burnt offering. In _vv._4, 5 there are some changes of order: Exodus 27:8 b is not repeated.... [ Continue Reading ]
_overlaid it with_ BRONZE] According to Numbers 16:38-39 (where -a covering" is properly -an _overlaying_," as here), this was not done till a later time.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Bronze Laver (Exodus 30:18-21). _V._8a as Exodus 30:18 a; _v._8b is new. Exodus 30:18 is not repeated here (see Exodus 40:30-32). 8B. _the serving women which served_ The expression is peculiar, the word used (צבא) being (both times) not the ordinary Heb. for -serve," but the word which means pr... [ Continue Reading ]
(Exodus 27:9-19). The Court of the Tent of Meeting. In _vv._16 19 the text (Exodus 27:16-18) is reproduced with greater freedom than usual.... [ Continue Reading ]
_fillets_ i.e. _bands_, or _binding-rings_; see on Exodus 27:10. 12B. _the hooks_, &c. Not in Exodus 27:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
_on this hand_… _of the court_ Not in Exodus 27:15; and, as Di. points out, a misplaced gloss (there is no -so" in the Heb. at the beginning of the verse): read therefore (for _and_so, &c.), _and for the other side were hangings of fifteen cubits_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_of fine twined linen_ Cf. Exodus 27:18, towards the end.... [ Continue Reading ]
Expanded from Exodus 27:17. _the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver_ Sam. _their hooks of silver_(Exodus 27:17), relieving the tautology with the last clause of the verse. _their chapiters_ not mentioned in Exodus 27:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
The _screen_for the gate of the Court. _V._18a=Exodus 27:16 a; _v._18b (-the height," &c.) inferred from Exodus 27:18 (-answerable to" = _corresponding to_; cf. in RV. Ezekiel 40:18; Ezekiel 45:7; Ezekiel 48:13; Ezekiel 48:18; and see _DB._s.v. Answer). _V._19a =Exodus 27:16 b; _v._19b _their hooks... [ Continue Reading ]
As Exodus 27:19 b.... [ Continue Reading ]
Superscription. THESE ARE _the reckoning_ S _of_(the metals employed for) the DWELLING, (even) _the_ DWELLING _of the testimony_(so Numbers 1:50; Numbers 1:53; Numbers 10:11; cf. on Exodus 25:16), WHICH _were_ RECKONED _according to the commandment of Moses_; (being) _the_ WORK _of the Levites_, UND... [ Continue Reading ]
Account of the amount of metal employed in the construction of the Tent of Meeting. A -very late addition" to the narrative (Di., in agreement with We. and others): notice (1) in _v._25 f. the census of Numbers 1 (_v._46) is presupposed, although according to P (Numbers 1:1 compared with Exodus 40:1... [ Continue Reading ]
The writer, after mentioning what the Levites did (_v._21), reverts to the more important work done by the two artificers, Bĕẓal"çl and Oholiab (Exodus 31:2; Exodus 31:6; Exodus 35:30; Exodus 35:35).... [ Continue Reading ]
_a_ CRAFTSMAN, _and a_ PATTERN-WEAVER, &c. as Exodus 35:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
The _gold_. This amounted to 29 talents, and 730 shekels, or (as the talent contained Exo 3000 shekels) 87,730 shekels, i.e. if the -sacred" shekel (p. 333) weighed 224 grs., _c._40,940 oz. troy, which, even at the present value of gold, would be worth nearly £ 160,000. _the offering_ properly, _th... [ Continue Reading ]
The _silver_, with particulars of the purposes for which it was used. This amounted to 100 talents and 1775 shekels, i.e. 301,775 shekels (_c._Exo 140,828 oz.), being half a shekel a head, exacted (according to Exodus 30:13 f.) from the 603,550 male Israelites, of 20 years old and upwards, of the ce... [ Continue Reading ]
_a beḳa-_ Genesis 24:22.† Lit. a _thing cleft_or _halved_. Three beḳa-s have been found recently in Palestine (_Qu. St. of PEF._, 1904, pp. 179, 211, _ZDPV._1906, p. 94), weighing respectively 90.58, 94.28, and 102.5 grains Troy. They are apparently light, or worn, beḳa-s of the -Phoenician" standar... [ Continue Reading ]
See Exodus 26:19; Exodus 26:21; Exodus 26:25; Exodus 26:32 (40+40+16+4=100).... [ Continue Reading ]
See Exodus 27:10-11; Exodus 27:17 (the hooks and the fillets of the pillars of the Court); Exodus 38:17; Exodus 38:19 (the chapiters as well).... [ Continue Reading ]
The _bronze_. This weighed 212,400 shekels, or (see, for the standard of copper or bronze, _DB._iv. 906 a) 108,749 oz. av. (_c._3 tons).... [ Continue Reading ]
_the_ BRONZE _altar_ i.e. the altar of burnt offering (Exodus 27:1-8). So Exodus 39:39; see p. 329.... [ Continue Reading ]
See Exodus 26:37; Exodus 27:2-4; Exodus 27:6; Exodus 27:10-11; Exodus 27:17-19. The Bronze Laver (Exodus 30:18) is passed over in the enumeration.... [ Continue Reading ]