HI
The Dwelling.
HI
0
A.261S
gifts asked .
a. 354-9
a. 35*88
workmen in\'ited
b. ioi»
6. 9-19:
gifts presented .
c. ™-2a
t 20.29
C. siiu
Bezalel. etc.
d. 30-3U1
d. 30.391
gifts linished
e. 362-'
e. 362-7
E. 261"
curuius
f S-19
k. 37if-:
p 16-30
boards
g 20.34
«. 3818-21!
G. 8if-
veU .
h! 35f.
I. 373f.
I. 36f.
screen
L 37f.
m. «■
B. 251» 22
ark .
J. 371-9
p. 38i-8§
0. 23-S"
table .
k. 10-16
9. 9-1'^:
D. si«
candlestick
1' VI-'U
r. 13-17J
w. soil
incense altar
m. S5.28
X. 8-10
its use
...
A'. W-33
an minting oil
n. 29'
u. "i.
B. 34-38
incense
0. 191>
C. 25b
J. 271-8
brazen altar
p. 381-7
t 22-24}
Z. 3017-21
laver .
q. 8
W. 26
K. 27»-l»
court .
r. »-20
n. 377-18
L. sw-
oil for light summary of gifU
(. n-si
(0. 37i9-ai
\v- 39110
M. 281-»
N. 8-12
priests' dress, epbod .
t39i-' ■[
a'. 3yi3J /. 368-14§
0. 2813-29
breastplate
Q.S98-21
g. 3613-29
p. 30
Urira and Thummim .
Q. 31 SS
robe . . . .
T. ■■■2a2«
A. "30-34
S. ss-is
coats, etc. .
W *'-29
,-. 3JS.S7
K. SMS
plate on mitrv .
X. 30f
j 38-40 :
»
summary .
7. 33^
12. 3911ft
^
order to erect, etc .
z. 40113
C. 401 13t
brief execution .
a'. 18
d'. '*
erection of dwelling .
b'. 1719
e'. 15-17
H. 2e3»<>
furniture placed
c' 20-30
/. 1»-26J
...
use of laver
d''. 8if.
X. 3S27
erection of court
e'. »
/. 40278 ;
T. 29i-»
consecration of) Aaron and sons )
Lv8
U. S6f.
do. of altar
...
...
V 38-42
daily sacrifice .
...
• H
1-. 30" 1«
atonement money .
•*•
».
S Put omitted.
X With omissions and variations.
EXODUS
EXORCISM, EXORCIST
811
altar i» still the only one Nu 16". It may be noted that 28" 29"' are late P* because Aaron'3 eons receive anointing, contrary to the clear intention of P« in 29'- » '-, and so Lv 8'^ etc. A further comparison of H^ with G shows a second set of variations. It is held by many that the facts require us to suppose tliat the Greek tr. of 35-40 was made before the Heb. text had reached its present symmetrical and complete form. By means of the above table the student can readily test for himself the value of this suggestion.
V. CONCLUDINO SlJRVBY.
i. The History. — If we accept the results of this article as in the main correct, we have passed far beyond the boundary of a merely negative criticism. It might be called destructive work to show by detailed proof that we have no contem- porary account ot the Exodus and subsequent evente. But when it is shown that the present narrative is made up of three, so far contrasting with one another as to prove themselves much later in date than the period of which they treat, and the work, not merely of different individuals, but of dillerent schools of historical writing ; and when the further step is taken of disentangling, with infinite pains of many labourers in many lands, the several threads of narrative, and re- combining them in something like their original connexions, the work of constructive criticism must be held to have been well begun. The summaries will have shown on how many im- W)rtant points the three witnesses are at one. ror fuller particulars see MoSES, IsRAKL.
But, while it is well to remember that contrasts are not always, or even usually, contradictions, it woald be idle to try to belittle the extent of the change of view brouglit about. We may rather tbirk of it as the drawing back of a veil of illusion whi,-li God \vi.sely allowed to liang over the past, until the growth of truer ideas about history both took away the veU, and made men ready to make use of the facts, whose real relations were at last adequately discovered.
If, therefore, it has to be admitted that the Priestly history (P) has no independent value as a witness to the Mosaic period, and that the materials in E, and to a less extent in J, require careful sifting before being regarded as correctly represent- ing an age which to them was already a distant age, we may set against that two tilings. I'irst, an exact view of that epoch might have dis- appointed us, even as a field sown with com has little beauty till the seeds have shot up into blade and stem. Secondly, we have instead three views of it, so influencecf by the ideas of the writers' own times and circumstances as to reveal to us vario\is stages in the after-growth, which was it.sclf entirely dependent on that germinal time. On the face of it, the book tells of the Exodus of Isr. from tlie hon<lage of Egypt ; in the soul of it, it speaks, to those who have ears to hear, of successive stages in the great outgoing, at once more glorious and more perilous, of the family of man from tlie bondage of superstition, ignorance, and sin. The events are not merely typical of 8pirit\ial realities ; but the very fact t1i.it they were thus and then recorded, shows the faith of the men of other days in the God whose hand they loved to trace at work in the world.