Exodus 36:1

CHAPTER XXXVI

Moses appoints Bezaleel, Aholiab, and their associates, to the work,

and delivers to them the free-will offerings of the people, 1-3.

The people bring offerings more than are needed for the work, and are

only restrained by the proclamation of Moses, 4-7.

The curtains, their loops, taches, c., for the tabernacle, 8-18.

The covering for the tent, 19.

The boards, 20-30.

The bars, 31-34.

The veil and its pillars, 35, 36.

The hangings and their pillars, 37, 38.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXVI

Verse Exodus 36:1. Then wrought, c.] The first verse of this chapter should end the preceding chapter, and this should begin with verse the second as it now stands, it does not make a very consistent sense. By reading the first word ועשה veasah, then wrought, in the future tense instead of the past, the proper connection will be preserved: for all grammarians know that the conjunction vau is often conversive, i.e., it turns the preterite tense of those verbs to which it is prefixed into the future, and the future into the preterite: this power it evidently has here and joined with the last verse of the preceding chapter the connection will appear thus, Exodus 35:30-2, c.: The Lord hath called by name Bezaleel and Aholiab them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work. Exodus 36:1: And Bezaleel and Aholiab SHALL WORK, and every wise-hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom.