III. ISRAEL AT SINAI ( XIX.- XL.).
The division Num 19- 40 presents difficulties due to its very
importance, _see_ introduction to Ex. (last paragraph). But Num 25-
31, 35- 40 readily fall apart from the rest, as containing P's account
of the Tabernacle (_see_ on Exodus 25:1), the introduction to wh... [ Continue Reading ]
EXODUS 35:30 TO EXODUS 36:7 P S. THE CRAFTSMEN AND THEIR SUPPLIES. The
first paragraph (to Exodus 36:1) describes the call of Bezalel and
Oholiab (_cf. Exodus 31:2_ ff.). The second (Exodus 36:2) relates,
with a glowing idealisation of the conditions of that golden age, how
the craftsmen had to rest... [ Continue Reading ]