Exodus 39:1

_AND OF THE BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND SCARLET, THEY MADE CLOTHS OF SERVICE, TO DO SERVICE IN THE HOLY PLACE, AND MADE THE HOLY GARMENTS FOR AARON; AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES._ Cloths of service - official robes. The ephod of the high priest, the robe of the ephod, the girdle of needlework, and the broidered coat were all of fine linen; for on no material less delicate could such elaborate symbolical figures have been portrayed in embroidery, and all beautified with the same brilliant colours. (See the note at Exodus 28:1.)...

1._And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet_. The description of the sacerdotal garments, which is repeated in this chapter, is more accurate than it would have been had he been speaking of some unimportant matter. And assuredly, since Christ was vividly represented in the person of the high priest, this was a most important part of the legal service. We have elsewhere set forth how far it was from being an empty pomp, as when the Popish sacrificers now-a-days, in order to acquire dignity, dazzle the eyes of the simple by the splendor of their vestments, and their magnificent paraphernalia; but that rather it was for the purpose of placing before men’s eyes all that faith ought to consider in Jesus Christ. We have especially seen how great mysteries were contained in the mitre, which was Holiness to the Lord: and in the ephod, in which shone forth the light of truth and integrity of life...

1-31 The priests' garments were rich and splendid. The church in its infancy was thus taught by shadows of good things to come; but the substance is Christ, and the grace of the gospel. Christ is our great High Priest. When he undertook the work of our redemption, he put on the clothes of service, he arrayed himself with the gifts and graces of the Spirit, girded himself with resolution to go through the undertaking, took charge of all God's spiritual Israel, laid them near his heart, engraved them on the palms of his hands, and presented them to his Father. And he crowned himself with holiness to the Lord, consecrating his whole undertaking to the honour of his Father's holiness. True believers are spiritual priests. The clean linen with which all their clothes of service must be made, is the righteousness of saints, Revelation 19:8....

CHAPTER XXXIX _Bezaleel makes the_ clothes of service _for the holy place_, _and the_ holy garments, 1. _The_ ephod, 2. Gold _is beaten into_ plates, _and cut into_ wires _for_ _embroidery_, 3. _He makes the_ shoulder-pieces _of the ephod_, 4. _The_ curious girdle, 5. _Cuts the_ onyx stones _for the shoulder-pieces_, 6. _Makes the_ breastplate, _its chains, ouches, rings, c._, 7-21. _The_ robe _of the_ ephod, 22-26. Coats _of fine linen_, 27....

See the notes to Exodus 28....

EXPOSITION EXODUS 39:1 THE FURTHER PROGRESS OF THE WORK—THE MAKING OF THE PRIESTS' DRESSES. EXODUS 39:32-2 THE GENERAL APPROVAL OF THE WORK BY MOSES. The entire work for the structure of the tabernacle being completed, it only remained for Bezaleel and Aholiab to take in band the priestly vestments, which had been prescribed with the greatest elaboration in...

AND OF THE BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND SCARLET, THEY MADE CLOTHS OF SERVICE,.... Jarchi observes that there is no mention made of linen, because these were not the priestly garments in which there was linen; but these were they with which they covered the vessels of the sanctuary when they journeyed; and so says Aben Ezra; and those were covered with cloths of blue, purple, and scarlet, Numbers 4:5 though some think these were clothes wore by the priests: TO DO SERVICE IN THE HOLY PLACE: and which they only wore when in it, and employed in the service of it; and therefore what follows must be by way of explanation: AND MADE THE HOLY GARMENTS FOR AARON, AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES; the particulars of which are given in the following verses....

CHAPTER 39 THE PRIESTLY GARMENTS AND THE WORK FINISHED _ 1. The material used (Exodus 39:1)_ 2. The ephod (Exodus 39:2) 3. The breastplate (Exodus 39:8) 4. The robe, the bells and pomegranates (Exodus 39:22) 5. The coats (Exodus 39:27) 6. The holy crown (Exodus 39:30) 7. The work finished (Exodus 39:32) All is done “as the Lor

EXODUS 39. P S. VESTMENTS AND SUMMARY. Exodus 39:1 a and Exodus 39:1 b are doublets, and Exodus 39:1 a perhaps once began a full account of the woven fabrics, now given in another place. The explanation in Exodus 39:3 as to the way in which they worked in the gold is new here. There is abridgment in some verses, and after a sentence concluding the full account of the constructive process a fresh summary follows, the workers being generalised (Exodus 39:32; Exodus 39:42) as the chil

HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. AS. according as. Note this in each of the seven-fold repetition of the words "as the LORD commanded Moses" in this record of the _completion_ of the work: and again in the work of the _setting up_ of the tabernacle, Exodus 40. Thus in Exodus 39:1; Exodus 39:5; Exodus 39:7; Exodus 39:21; Exodus 39:26;...