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Lxx» 24"" 31'*'' (cf. DUh) comes I9» 20» (c) in a thick cloud 19»" 20"'-'" cf. U*" 33" Nu 11» I'i" Dt 31">B (d) to the mount of God 24" (cf. I C J), (e) that the people may HEAR 19"- '» 20'- '».
(f) So Moses has to sunctify the PEOPLE 19'"'-'*'-,
(g) and they only stand ajar ojf through fear 20^' (h) after Aloses has brought them all near 19", (i) when there is the VOICE of a TRUMPET qoing on and incrc(i.nng much HI'"- '" 20". (j) (see below v, X). Without any individuals drawing nearer, God
speaks the Decalogue to the people 20'- ", (k) (see below w, y), and the covenant is assented to by the people i9^-^ cf. 24»-' Dt 27""- '• Jos 24'«-" 1 S ll'''-I2™^. (1) Moses is then summoned, and (/o&j up into the mount with Joxliua his minister 24'"- cf. 33" Nu 11'^, (m) that (!oil ma.y give him the tnh/ea of STONE which He has written, and the law and the commandment t/uit he nuiy teach them 24'-' (with a slight transposition rendered necessary by an alteration presumably made when the Book of Judgments was thrust into tlie centre of the Book of the Covenant to make way for the Deuteronomic law given in the plains of Moab). (n) On the Ubies God has already written 24" 31'*'' (0) apparently the Decalogue, see Dt 5-"'. (p) Moses remains in the mount 4U days and 40 nights for the purpose, it would seem, of receiving the law and the commandment, here supposed to refer to the material of the Book of Judgments 21-23". (q) On descending he discovers with surprise the idolatry of the people, (r) and breaks the tables, and destroys the golden calf 32"'''- "'•". (s) Mose tlien intercedes for the people, is bidden to lead them himself, but has promise of God's angel to go before him : there is a marked tone of severity in the words of J" 32^''-^. (t) That E spoke of the ark here may be implied from his allusions in Jos passim, (u) and that he described the makin" of a simpler form of the tent of meeting, placed without the camp, and possibly adorned by aid of the abandoned ornanieiits, seems to follow from 33'" Nu ui»>--"'K' 12^'- Dt 31'-"- with Ex 33« 3-"^ U-'- (y) J" gives the Book of the Covenant 20"- ■" o.jsi. 2y«-!ar . (vv) the covenant is assented to by the people, see k above ; (x) certain young men 24° cf. 32" and Joshua 33", ct. J under k, (y) oUer a covenant sacrifice 24' cf. 20=* 32" Dt 27'''.
p — (a) J" (so throughout) (b) makes His glory (16'- "• 29" 40*^'- Nu 14'° 10'"- " 20« ct. the les.s local and physical use of the terra 33"'-"'' Nu 14-" J, Dt 5"*) to appear (c) like devouring fire (40-'® Lv 9** 10- Nu 9'='- 16=») . . . out of the midst of the CLOUD (16'° 24"- '«*"•"• " 40S*- so- 88- "• M Lv 16' Nu 9">''- 11 times 10'"-" 16*-) (d) upon Mount Sinai (e) tTi the eyes of tlie children of Israel 24'»''-"*', (f) no priests having yet been consecrated 29 Lv 8-10, (g) aU except Moses being kept at a distance ; (I) Moses is called, and goes up into the mount 24'"'*', (m) that he may receive the two tables of the TE.STIMONV 31'** 32'°*', (n) which had, written on both their sides 32'°'', (0) no doubt the Decalogue, a brief account of the giving of whiili may have been displaced by R' in favour of the impressive nar- rative 01 JE, 20" being perliai)s the only fragment preserved, (p) Moses remains in the mount (prob. for 40 days and nights) to receive the pattern of the sanctuary (25-30), (8) with a promise of J" to meet with the children of Israel (henKa tent of meeting) and to dwell amonq the children of Israel (hence Tabernacle or Dwelling) 29'-". (t) Moses SUUSKQUENTLY ORUEKS to be made an ark of acacia wood, overlaid and ornamented with gold 25'°-»- 37'-», and puts the testimony into the ark 25" 40"" ; (u) he also prepares, erects, and furnishes a gorgeous Dwelling for J", large and costly ami needing a numerous body of priests and Levites to attend to it (35-40).
D. Other Clusi. j—Ood, when itress Is on Ili8 nature, dolty M" On 32*t Sa'O' »((^ n«l.rd S'i" aS^- ° 34", quoted Dt (>«• '" ; coivtuim 32"' ''^ 83^^ On 41* cl. Nu KT^l ■" P iti'. ; and 1 icilt make of tlue a amt iKifi-m 321» On 12' Nu 14'^ ft. Heb. Gn SI" 4li» E and "in 1--" V-./at-r of the grottml 3.!l» 3310 On 2» 43- " U' I 7'L« 8»i» c(. Nu 12> E> and'Dl 0'° 7« '.i''-. it repciiltd J" 32i>-" On «»'■ cl. Ex 13" Nu 'i!'" ; land Jtuuint), el<;. 1 D\ find <jmcf (in the tur, oD 33l3»b. lOf. nil Gn OS. 183- IB"'- 3lVn- ii'- 33S- 10- " 3411 3IV1 4725.'ai f,o4 Nu 1111" ;i« Dt 211 •; pnw h// (nt J" or lliH itlorj) MH'-'^b S40 ; proclaim . . . 3311" 34« ((Ay) tllon, S3i».a „t, 0 b uiidir P; 8tre88 on morcjf S3'» S*"*- Nu U"", J inakt a covenant aiiO- V.