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Exodus 36

Exodus 36 - Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 36 Bezaleel and Aholiab, with the artificers under them, having a call as well as qualifications for the service of the sanctuary, and having received from Moses the materials for it, set about it, Exodus 36:1 but the people bringing more than was necessary, they acquaint Mos... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 36:1

THEN WROUGHT BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB, AND EVERY WISE HEARTED MAN,.... Or every ingenious artificer under them: when they began to work is not precisely said, but it is very probable they set about it directly, as soon as they were furnished with materials for it, nor is it said where they wrought; it i... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 36:2

AND MOSES CALLED BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB, AND EVERY WISE HEARTED MAN,.... It was not enough that they had qualifications for this work, but they must have a call to it from Moses, to whom the whole affair was committed, to see that it was done according to the pattern shown him in the mount: so all tha... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 36:3

AND THEY RECEIVED OF MOSES ALL THE OFFERING,.... That is, Bezaleel and Aholiab received it of him, who delivered it to the several workmen, as the nature of their work required, some one thing, and some another: to some gold, to others silver, to others brass, and to some they delivered out fine lin... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 36:4

AND ALL THE WISE MEN THAT WROUGHT ALL THE WORK OF THE SANCTUARY,.... The ingenious artificers who were employed, some in one thing, and some in another, either on the tabernacle itself, or the vessels of it, and things appertaining to it; CAME EVERY MAN FROM HIS WORK WHICH THEY MADE; left off their... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 36:5

AND THEY SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,.... One in the name of the rest: THE PEOPLE BRING MUCH MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR THE SERVICE OF THE WORK, WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED TO MAKE; they had taken an estimate of what was to be done, and of what was necessary for the doing of it, and of what the people brought... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 36:6

AND MOSES GAVE COMMANDMENT,.... Orders to some proper person or persons about him; AND THEY CAUSED IT TO BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE CAMP, or "caused a voice to pass"; a crier or herald, as the Targums, who went through the camp and published in every quarter: SAYING, LET NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN MA... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 36:7

FOR THE STUFF THEY HAD WAS SUFFICIENT FOR ALL THE WORK TO MAKE IT,.... The gold, silver, brass, and precious stones, the wood and yarn, which had been already brought in, were sufficient for everything they were ordered to make: AND TOO MUCH; a great deal more than would be used; much would remain... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 36:8

Ver. 8-38. AND EVERY WISE HEARTED MAN AMONG THEM THAT WROUGHT THE WORK OF THE TABERNACLE,.... Did the part assigned him, what he was fittest for, and most skilful in: particularly some MADE TEN CURTAINS, c. which were properly the tabernacle, and were made first, and then the several things apperta... [ Continue Reading ]

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