Exodus 35:1

And Moses gathered, &c.— The narrative, having been interrupted by the affair of the calf, is here resumed; so that, from the 32nd to the present chapter, the whole may be considered as a digression, and read as in a parenthesis. We need not, I judge, give ourselves or our reader the trouble of referring to the former Chapter s, wherein the several particulars mentioned in this and the following Chapter s are explained. We need not be surprised at this repetition, since it is known to have been the usual method with the writers of those times: Homer frequently uses it; and it is the taste of the Orientals to this day.