1 The tabernacle is commanded to be reared, anointed, and consecrated
13 Aaron and his sons to be sanctified
16 Moses performs all things accordingly
34 A cloud covers the tabernacle

2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

the first month Ex 40:17 12:1,2 13:4 Nu 7:1

tabernacle Ex 40:6,18,19 26:1,7,30 27:21 30:36 35:11 36:18

3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.

ex 40:20,21 25:10,22 26:31,33,34 35:12 36:35,36 37:1-9 Le 16:14 Nu 4:5 Re 11:19

4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.

the table Ex 40:22,25 25:23-30 26:35,36 37:10-24

the things that, Heb. the order thereof Le 24:5,6,8

the candlestick Ex 40:24,25 25:31-39

5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.

the altar Ex 40:26,27 30:1-5 35:25-28 37:25-28 Joh 14:6 Heb 9:24 10:19-22 1Jo 2:1,2

put Ex 40:28 26:36,37

6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

Ex 40:29 27:1-8 38:1-7 Eph 1:6,7 Heb 13:10 1Jo 2:2 4:9,10

7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.

Ex 40:30-32 30:18-21 38:8 Ps 26:6 Zec 13:1 Tit 3:5 Heb 10:22 1Jo 1:7 Re 1:5,6

8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.

the court Ex 40:33 27:9-19 38:9-20 Mt 16:18 1Co 12:28 Eph 4:11,12

9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.

the anointing oil Ex 30:23-33 37:29 39:39 Le 8:10 Nu 7:1 Ps 45:7 Isa 11:2 61:1 Mt 3:16 Joh 3:34 2Co 1:4,22 1Jo 2:20

10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.

sanctify Ex 29:36,37 Le 8:11 Isa 11:2 61:1 Joh 3:34 17:19

most holy Heb. holiness of holiness Lu 1:35 1Co 1:30 2Co 5:21 Heb 7:26

11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.

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12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.

Ex 29:1-35 Le 8:1-13 9:1 Isa 11:1-5 61:1-3 Mt 3:16 Lu 1:35 Joh 3:34 Ro 8:3 Ga 4:4

13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

anoint him Ex 28:41 Isa 61:1 Joh 3:34 17:19 Heb 10:10,29 1Jo 2:20,27

14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:

Isa 44:3-5 61:10 Joh 1:16 Ro 8:30 13:14 1Co 1:9,30

15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

everlasting Ex 12:14 30:31,33 Nu 25:13 Ps 110:4 Heb 5:1 7:3,7,17-24 8:1 9:1 10:1

16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.

according Ex 40:17-32 23:21,22 39:42,43 De 4:1 12:32 Isa 8:20 Mt 28:20 1Co 4:2

17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

An.Ex.Is.2.Abib Ex 40:1,2 Nu 7:2 9:1

18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.

reared Ex 40:2 26:15-30 36:20-34 Le 26:11 Eze 37:27,28 Joh 1:14 Ga 4:4 1Pe 1:5 Re 21:3

and fastened Mt 16:18 1Ti 3:15

19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.

the tent Ex 26:1-14 36:8-19

20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:

the testimony Ex 16:34 25:16-21 31:18 Ps 40:8 Mt 3:15

mercy Ex 40:3 37:6-9 Ro 3:25 10:4 Heb 4:16 10:19-21 1Jo 2:2

21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.

he brought Ex 40:3 26:33 35:12

and covered Heb 10:19,20

22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.

he put Joh 6:53-57 Eph 3:8

northward Ex 40:24 26:35

23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Ex 40:4 25:30 Mt 12:4 Heb 9:2

24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.

Ex 25:31-35 37:17-24 Ps 119:105 Joh 1:1,5,9 8:12 Re 1:20 2:5

25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ex 40:4 25:37 Re 4:5

26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:

Ex 40:5 30:1-10 Mt 23:19 Joh 11:42 17:1 Heb 7:25 10:1 1Jo 2:1

27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ex 30:7

28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

Ex 40:5 26:36,37 38:9-19 Joh 14:6 10:9 Eph 2:18 Heb 10:19,20

29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.

the altar Ex 40:6 27:1-8 38:1-7 Mt 23:19 Ro 3:24-26 Heb 9:12 13:5,6,10

offered Ex 29:38

30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.

Ex 40:7 30:18-21 38:8 Eze 36:25 Heb 10:22

31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:

washed Ps 26:6 51:6,7 Joh 13:10 1Jo 1:7,9

32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.

as the Lord Ex 40:19 30:19,20 Ps 73:19

33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

up the court Ex 40:8 27:9-16 Nu 1:50 Mt 16:8 1Co 12:13,28 Eph 4:11-13 Heb 9:6,7

the tabernacle. The tabernacle might either be called a house or a tent, because it had wooden walls and partitions like a house, and curtains and hangings like a tent; but as it externally resembled a common oblong tent, and the wooden walls were without a roof, and properly only supports for the many curtains and hangings spread over them, it is more properly called a tent. Even the ordinary tents of the Arabs have at least two main divisions; the innermost for the women, and hence called sacred, i.e. cut off, inaccessible. In the tent of an emir the innermost space is accessible to himself only, or those whom he particularly honours; into the outer tent others may come. The furniture is costly, the floor covered with a rich carpet, and has a stand with a censer and coals, on which incense is strewed. Hence we have the simple idea after which this magnificent royal tent of Jehovah, the King and God of the Hebrews, was made. hanging. Joh 10:9 14:6 Eph 2:18 Heb 4:14-16

So Moses Ex 39:32 1Ki 6:9 Zec 4:9 Joh 4:34 17:4 2Ti 4:7 Heb 3:2-5

34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

a cloud Ex 13:21,22 14:19,20,24 25:8,21,22 29:43 33:9 Le 16:2 Nu 9:15-23 1Ki 8:10,11 2Ch 5:13 7:2 Ps 18:10-12 Isa 4:5,6 6:4 Eze 43:4-7 Hag 2:7,9 Re 15:8 21:3,23,24

35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Le 16:2 1Ki 8:11 2Ch 5:14 7:2 Isa 6:4 Re 15:8

36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:

when Ex 13:21,22 Nu 10:11-13,33-36 Ne 9:19 Ps 78:14 105:39 1Co 10:1 2Co 5:19,20

went onward. Heb. journeyed

37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.

Nu 9:19-22 Ps 31:15

38 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

the cloud. 13:21 Nu 9:15

fire Ps 78:14 105:39 Isa 4:5,6

CONCLUDING REMARKS.

Moses was undoubtedly the author of this Book, which forms a continuation of the preceding, and was evidently written after the promulgation of the law: it embraces the history of about 145 years. Moses, having in the Book of Genesis described the creation of the world, the origin of nations, and the peopling of the earth, details in the Book of Exodus the commencement and nature of the Jewish Church and Polity, which has very properly been termed a Theocracy, (from Theos, God, and krateo, to rule,) in which Jehovah appears not merely as their Creator and God, but as their King. Hence this and the following books of Moses are not purely historical; but contain not only laws for the regulation of their moral conduct and the rites and ceremonies of their religious worship, but judicial and political laws relating to government and civl life. The stupendous facts connected with these events, may be clearly perceived by consulting the marginal references; and many of the circumstances are confirmed by the testimony of heathen writers. Numenius, a Pythagorean philosopher, mentioned by Eusebius, speaks of the opposition of the magicians, whom he calls Jannes and Jambres, to the miracles of Moses. Though the names of these magicians are not preserved in the Sacred Text, yet tradition had preserved them in the Jewish records, from which Paul (2 Ti 3:8,) undoubtedly quotes. Add to this that many of the notions of the heathen respecting the appearance of the Deity, and their religious institutions and laws, were borrowed from this book; and many of their fables were nothing more than distorted traditions of those events which are here plainly related by Moses.