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Exodus 40

Exodus 40:1-15

Moses is instructed by Jehovah to set up the Tent of Meeting, and the Court, to arrange the sacred vessels in their places (_vv._2 8), to consecrate the whole by anointing it (_vv._9 11), to clothe the priests in their vestments, and to anoint them (_vv._12 15). Most of these instructions have been... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:2

_the first day of the first month_ viz. (_v._17) of the second year of the Exodus, nine months since the arrival at Sinai (Exodus 19:1). _the_ DWELLING _of the tent of meeting_ as Exodus 39:32.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:4

See Exodus 26:35; Exodus 25:30; Exodus 25:37 b. _set in order_, &c. lit. _arrange its arrangement_, with reference to the two _piles_of loaves arranged upon it. Cf. _v._23 (lit. - _arranged_upon it _the arrangement of_bread"). Leviticus 24:6 -two _rows_" (lit. _arrangements_). And so a later designa... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:6

_the altar of burnt offering_ Exodus 27:1-8; Exodus 38:1-7. The position of this altar has not been defined before. _the_ ENTRANCE _of the_ DWELLING, &c. cf. _v._2.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:9,10

It is remarkable that, while in Exodus 30:29 (see _vv._26 28), the Tent of Meeting with _all_the vessels belonging to it, are, by anointing, made -most holy" (see for this term on Exodus 29:37), here the altar only is -most holy," and the Tent of Meeting and all its contents are only -holy.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:9-11

The Dwelling, and everything belonging to it, to be anointed with the holy anointing oil: see Exodus 30:26-29; and cf. Exodus 29:36 f. (the altar alone).... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:12-15

Aaron and his sons (i.e. the high-priest and the ordinary priests) to be washed, clothed in their sacred vestments, and anointed. See Exodus 29:4-6 (much abridged here), 7 9; and Exodus 30:30.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:15

15A. For the common priests being anointed exactly as the high-priest (not prescribed in ch. 29), see Exodus 28:41; and cf. on Exodus 30:30. 15B. _an everlasting priesthood_ It is to be for ever hereditary in Aaron's family. A perpetual priesthood is also promised to Aaron's -sons" in Exodus 29:9: b... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:16

_Thus did Moses_ AND _Moses did_(so), leading on to the enumeration of particulars in _v._17 ff.: for the form of sentence, see on Exodus 7:6. The verse, so far as _vv._9 14 are concerned, anticipates Leviticus 8:10-11; Leviticus 8:6-9; Leviticus 8:12-13: the execution of the command in _v._15 is no... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:17-33

Moses sets up the Tent of _Meeting_, and the Court, and arranges the sacred vessels according to the instructions given in _vv._1 8, or (in some cases) in chs. 25 31 only. He also (_vv._23, 25, 27, 29) begins the daily services.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:19

_the tent over the_ DWELLING, _and_… _the covering_ See Exodus 26:7; Exodus 26:14. -Covering" (strictly, -coverings"), as Exodus 35:11. _as_ JEHOVAH _commanded Moses_ so _vv._21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 32; cf. on Exodus 39:1.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:20

See Exodus 25:16; Exodus 25:21 b; Exodus 25:14-15; Exodus 25:21 a. For the -testimony" (i.e. the tables of stone with the Decalogue), see on Exodus 25:16.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:27

See Exodus 30:7. Moses, however, not Aaron, according to the present writer, begins the daily services (cf. _vv._23, 25, 29), and maintains them during the first eight days till the priests are installed (cf. Exodus 29:35; Leviticus 8:33; Leviticus 9:1).... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:31,32

See Exodus 30:19-20. Moses is included, because for the time he acted as priest (_v._27). The tenses are frequentative, USED TO WASH (twice), just as in Exodus 34:34 f., for instance. As -Aaron and his sons" are not yet installed (see Leviticus 8), there is a prolepsis in the verses, even if (Di.) t... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:33

See _v._8; cf. Exodus 27:9 a, Exodus 27:16. (-Set up" here = -hang up" in _v._8. -Put up" in _v._8a, and -set up" in _v._8b, would make the renderings in the two verses uniform.)... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:34-38

The cloud (see on Exodus 13:21-22) now takes up its abode on the Tent of Meeting (cf. Numbers 9:15 P), and the glory (see on Exodus 16:10) of Jehovah fills the DWELLING (_vv._34 f.). Ever afterwards, through the period of the Israelites" journeyings, the cloud, while they were stationary, remains up... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:36

_went onward_ lit. _plucked up_(tent-pegs), i.e. broke up camp, the usual Heb. expression for _set out_. The verb is cognate with -journeys," and is rendered -journeyed" in _v._37. Comp. on Exodus 12:37, and Exodus 17:1.... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:36-38

The tenses are throughout frequentative ( USED TO GO ONWARD, USED NOT TO JOURNEY, USED TO BE), describing what was the case habitually during the journeyings in the wilderness. Cf. Numbers 9:16-23; Numbers 10:34; also Exodus 10:11 f. (all P). For the divergent representations of J and E, see on Exod... [ Continue Reading ]

Exodus 40:38

_and there was fire therein_, &c. i.e. in the cloud. Cf. Numbers 9:15-16 (P). The book thus closes with the fulfilment of the promise given in Exodus 29:43; Exodus 29:45 (see on Exodus 29:43-46). The Dwelling is complete, and Jehovah, with His protecting and sanctifying Presence, has taken up His a... [ Continue Reading ]

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