Exodus 35:1

_AND MOSES GATHERED ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TOGETHER, AND SAID UNTO THEM, THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD HATH COMMANDED, THAT YE SHOULD DO THEM._ Moses gathered ... On the occasion referred to in the opening of this chapter, the Israelites were specially reminded of the design to erect a magnificent tabernacle for the regular worship of God, as well as of the leading articles that were required to furnish that sacred edifice, (see the notes at Exodus 25:1; Exodus 27:1; Exodus 30:1; Exodus 31:1.)...

1-3 The mild and easy yoke of Christ has made our sabbath duties more delightful, and our sabbath restraints less irksome, than those of the Jews; but we are the more guilty by neglecting them. Surely God's wisdom in giving us the sabbath, with all the mercy of its purposes, are sinfully disregarded. Is it nothing to pour contempt upon the blessed day, which a bounteous God has given to us for our growth in grace with the church below, and to prepare us for happiness with the church above?...

CHAPTER XXXV _Moses assembles the congregation to deliver to them the_ _commandments of God_, 1. _Directions concerning the Sabbath_, 2, 3. Free-will offerings _of_ gold, silver, brass, c., _for the_ _tabernacle_, 4-7. _Of_ oil _and_ spices, 8. _Of_ precious stones, 9. _Proper_ artists _to be employed_, 10. _The_ tabernacle _and its_ tent, 11. _The_ ark, 12. Table _of the_ shew-bread, 13. Candlestick, 14....

The narrative of what relates to the construction of the sanctuary is now resumed from Exodus 31:18....

THE CONSTRUCTION AND UPREARING OF THE TABERNACLE. EXPOSITION ITERATION OF THE LAW CONCERNING THE SABBATH. The work commanded during the time of Moses' first stay upon Sinai (ch. 25-31.), and hindered first by the infraction (Exodus 32:1.), and then by the renewal (Exodus 33:1; Exodus 34:1.) of the covenant, was now about to commence under the direction of Moses, who alone knew what was to be constructed. Before giving his orders upon the matter, he assembled the people ...

AND MOSES GATHERED ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TOGETHER,.... According to Jarchi, on the morrow after the day of atonement; that is, the next day after his descent from the mount, being desirous of setting about the building of the tabernacle, and making all things appertaining to it as soon as possible; which had been retarded through the sin of the golden calf, and making reconciliation for that: AND SAID UNTO THEM, THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD HATH COMMANDED, THAT YE SHOULD DO THEM; namely, the law of the sabbath, as it had a peculiar relation to the making of the tabernacle, and the freewill offerings to be made on that account; for as for the commands, or other ordinances, whether ceremonial or judicial, the people had been made acquainted with them before....

6. THE BUILDING OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER 35 The Commandments Concerning the Tabernacle Remembered and the Offerings _ 1. The Sabbath law emphasized (Exodus 35:1)_ 2. The offerings restated (Exodus 35:4) 3. The tabernacle and its furniture restated (Exodus 35:11) 4. The offerings given (Exodus 35:20) 5. The workmen and the teachers (Exodus 35:30) It is interesting to review the events and steps which lead to this consummation in Exodus, the setting up of the tabernacle. After Jehovah had redeemed His

EXODUS 35-40. P S. THE CONSTRUCTION AND ERECTION OF THE SACRED TENT. This division of the book is generally recognised as coming from the latest stratum in the Hexateuch. This conclusion can be denied (as recently by A. H. Finn in JThS 16:449- 481) only by those who ignore the number, variety, and independence of the converging lines of proof which point to it. The clearest and most specific ground for it is that the later elements in the appendix (Exodus 30 f.) to Exodus 25-29 are here redistributed and put in their proper places. Further, the radical differences of order, and astonishing omissions as, in places, of the incense altar and the laver (both among the supplements in Exodus 30) in LXX require the assumption that the Gr. translators had the material before them in an earlier and less well-arranged draft of the Heb. text. It does not follow that all differences are due to this...

Before the work commences, they are reminded of the commandment as to the six days and the seventh, even in the making of the Tabernacle. CHILDREN. sons. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4....

_the congregation_ see on Exo Exodus 12:3....