Exodus 39:1-43

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 children of Israel. The chapter closes with the inspection of the work by Moses and his benediction upon the workers, a feature reproduced in the Order for the Consecration of Churches as commonly used.