Exodus 26 - Introduction
The DWELLING, or (RV.) -tabernacle," i.e. (see on Exodus 25:9) the interior fabric of curtains, supported upon a wooden framework, forming the Holy place, and the Holy of holies.... [ Continue Reading ]
The DWELLING, or (RV.) -tabernacle," i.e. (see on Exodus 25:9) the interior fabric of curtains, supported upon a wooden framework, forming the Holy place, and the Holy of holies.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the tabernacle the_ DWELLING, used here, as the passage itself clearly shews, in its stricter sense (see on Exodus 25:9) of the structure formed by the tapestry hangings. Cf. Exodus 40:2 (with the note), 3, Numbers 3:25. _fine twined linen_ i.e. linen of superior fineness: see on Exodus 25:4. _bl... [ Continue Reading ]
(cf. Exodus 36:8-13). The ornamented _curtains_, forming the Dwelling itself. These were ten in number, each 28 cubits (42 ft.) long, and 4 cubits (6 ft.) wide, all made of richly coloured tapestry, with figures of cherubim interwoven (the -work of the designer"). When joined together, they formed a... [ Continue Reading ]
The curtains were to be joined together, so as to form two sets of five, each 28 cubits (42 ft.) long, and 20 cubits (30 ft.) broad. The Dwelling was 30 cubits long, and 10 cubits high and broad: and the curtain was spread over it in such a way that it hung down for the entire height of 10 cubits be... [ Continue Reading ]
These sets were to be coupled together so as to form a single large curtain 28 cubits (42 ft.) broad, and 40 cubits (60 ft.) long. The coupling was to be effected by 50 loops of violet tape being attached to one of the outer edges of each set, and fastened to the loop opposite to it by golden clasps... [ Continue Reading ]
EXODUS 7-13 (cf. Exodus 36:14-18). The _Tent_over the Dwelling, consisting of eleven curtains of cloth made of goats" hair, each 30 cubits long, and 4 cubits wide, fastened together so as to form a single large curtain, 30 cubits broad, and 44 cubits long. The Bedawin still make their tents of goats... [ Continue Reading ]
The dimensions of the -curtains," or, as we should here say, -breadths." On the _late_Heb. for -eleven," see _LOT._156 _n._ 9A. The curtains, or -breadths," are to be coupled together, so as to form two sets, of five and six breadths respectively. 9B. _double over_ i.e., as commonly understood, _l... [ Continue Reading ]
_coupling_ better as marg.: cf. _vv._4, 5.... [ Continue Reading ]
How the two sets, of five and six breadths respectively, were to be held together, viz. by 50 loops, with clasps of copper, attached to the outer edge of one of the end breadths in each set.... [ Continue Reading ]
_brass_ COPPER or BRONZE. Gold (_v._6) was confined to the clasps for the _inner_curtains, forming the Dwelling proper.... [ Continue Reading ]
_overhanging_ The Heb. means _loose_or _free_, not necessarily -overhanging." _the half curtain that remaineth_ The breadth in front is laid double (_v._9): it is consequently halved in width; and the entire length of the curtain is thus 42 cubits. As the Dwelling Isaiah 30 cubits long and 10 cubits... [ Continue Reading ]
On the two sides of the Dwelling, the curtain of goats" hair being 30 cubits broad, while the inner tapestry curtain was 28 cubits broad, the former would of course reach a cubit lower than the latter, and touch the ground.... [ Continue Reading ]
(cf. Exodus 36:19). Two outer coverings of stronger and stouter materials, to be laid over the Tent, for protection against rain. Kn. reminds us that on military expeditions the Romans used in winter to cover their tents with skins (_sub pellibus hiemare_). _rams" skins dyed red_ i.e. leather, dyed... [ Continue Reading ]
_boards_ either BEAMS or FRAMES: -boards" suggests something much thinner than seems to be intended. The Heb. _ḳéresh_, except in the present connexion (50 times), occurs only Ezekiel 27:6, of some part of a ship, described there as made up of ivory, inlaid in boxwood (RV. _benches_, RVm. _deck_); a... [ Continue Reading ]
The _wooden framework_of the Dwelling.... [ Continue Reading ]
_tenons_ lit. _hands_, used fig. of _supports_: cf. 1 Kings 7:32-33 (EVV. _axletrees_; rather, diagonal _stays_under the body of the laver, holding the axles in their places), 35 (_supports_of the basin at the top), 36 (corrupt dittography from _v._35: see Skinner's note in the _Century Bible_), Exo... [ Continue Reading ]
_for the south side southward_ lit., with not quite the same tautology as the English, TOWARDS (the) NEGEB, _southward_. The -Negeb" (properly, as Aram. shews, meaning _dry land_) is a geographical term denoting the arid district in the S. of Judah (Genesis 12:9 RVm., Joshua 15:21, and often); as th... [ Continue Reading ]
The number of frames for each side of the Dwelling, and the arrangements for holding them firmly in their place.... [ Continue Reading ]
_sockets_ BASES (Ezekiel 41:22 RVm.), or PEDESTALS (cf. Job 38:6 -foundations"; Song of Solomon 5:15 supporting pillars), i.e. solid blocks of silver acc. to Exodus 38:27 weighing a talent (96 lbs.) each resting on the ground, and, naturally, with -sockets" in them to receive the -tenons." A talent... [ Continue Reading ]
_westward_ lit. SEA - _ward. Sea_(i.e. the Medit. sea) is in Heb. the regular word for -west"; and the usage, like that of _négeb_in _v._18 in the sense of -south," could only have arisen after Israel had been long settled in Canaan. So Exodus 10:19; Exodus 10:27; Exodus 27:12; Exodus 36:27; Exodus... [ Continue Reading ]
The two corner frames.... [ Continue Reading ]
A most obscure verse, the _crux_of all interpreters. It must suffice here to state Kennedy's view (p. 661); for a discussion of others, the reader is referred to McNeile, p. lxxv f. (see also W. R. Smith, _Journ. of Phil._xvi. 76). After _v._22 these two extra frames do not really appear to be requi... [ Continue Reading ]
_eight_ i.e. the 6 + 2 of _vv._22, 23. BASES for _sockets_, as before.... [ Continue Reading ]
The _bars_. Five gilt bars of acacia wood, attached to the frames by gold rings, are to run horizontally along the two sides and the back of the Dwelling, to keep the frames in their places. The middle bar in each case ran from end to end: the other bars, it may be inferred, were shorter, perhaps ar... [ Continue Reading ]
Cf. Exodus 25:9; Exodus 25:40; and see Exodus 40:18. _fashion_ more exactly, _prescribed norm_: cf. 1 Kings 6:38; Ezekiel 42:11; and see on this sense of _mishpâṭ_the writer's _Jeremiah_, p. 345.... [ Continue Reading ]
_a veil_ Heb. _pârôketh_, only in P, in the same connexion, and 2 Chronicles 3:14: the primary meaning was probably -that which shuts off" cf. Ass. _parâku_, to _bar_or _shut off, parakku, apartment_, esp. _shrine_in a Temple; Syr. _perakkâ_(loan-word), a _shrine_). In Hebrews 6:19 f., Exodus 9:7-8;... [ Continue Reading ]
The _veil_, to separate the Holy place from the Holy of holies, made of the same richly coloured tapestry, with figures of cherubim woven into it (the -work of the designer"), as the curtain (_v._1), and suspended on four gilt pillars of acacia wood, _vv._31 33 (cf. Exodus 36:35-36). The position of... [ Continue Reading ]
_four_ BASES _of silver_ such as the frames rested upon, _v._19 ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
_under the clasps_ the clasps mentioned in _v._6, which must have been (_vv._2, 3) at a distance of 5 × 4 (20) cubits from the front of the Dwelling, and (as the Dwelling Isaiah 30 cubits long) 10 cubits from its back. The Holy place is thus 20 cubits long, and the Most Holy place 10 cubits; as the... [ Continue Reading ]
_over against_ OPPOSITE TO, on the south side of the table.... [ Continue Reading ]
Exodus 36-7 (Exodus 26:36-37). The _screen_, to cover the entrance to the Dwelling. This was of the same materials as the veil (_v._31), but, as it was further from the shrine, of less elaborate workmanship, the -work of the variegator," or -embroiderer" (not of the -designer" or pattern-weaver see... [ Continue Reading ]