Exodus 40 - Introduction
_GOD COMMANDS THE TABERNACLE TO BE ERECTED, AND AARON AND HIS SONS TO BE SANCTIFIED: MOSES OBEYS THE COMMAND; AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLS THE TABERNACLE._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD COMMANDS THE TABERNACLE TO BE ERECTED, AND AARON AND HIS SONS TO BE SANCTIFIED: MOSES OBEYS THE COMMAND; AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLS THE TABERNACLE._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH— That is, of the _second year_ after the departure from Egypt. See the 17th verse, and the last note on the former chapter.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEIR ANOINTING SHALL SURELY BE AN EVERLASTING PRIESTHOOD— Houbigant renders this, _And this anointing of theirs shall be for them, as well as for their posterity, for an everlasting right to the priesthood._ The successors of the high-priest were personally anointed; see Leviticus 6:22; Levitic... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MOSES, AND AARON AND HIS SONS, WASHED THEIR HANDS, &C.— This shews, (what we have before observed on Exodus 29:26) that Moses now acted as priest: see ch. Exodus 30:19 and Levit. ch. 8. It is to be remembered, that, in this erection of the tabernacle, due regard was had to the time appointed for... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 34. _THEN A CLOUD COVERED THE TENT_— It should rather be rendered, _then the cloud covered the tent._ The tabernacle being finished, the Divine Presence, signified by this _glorious cloud,_ came to take possession, as it were, of that house, which God had promised to inhabit, as the King and... [ Continue Reading ]