b There I will be in a f pecial and gracious manner preſent with thee. c Which ſpreaving forth their wings formed a kind of ſear, which the Divine Majeſty was pleaſed ro poſleſs.
23 T* Thou ſhait aiſo make a tabie of ſhittim-wood:
*Chap:37 two cubits ſhall be the length thereof, and a cubit
2 ng the breadth thereof, anb a cubic anda half the height
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' 24. 7. Of this ſort there were twelve, one for every Loaf. # In
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24 And thou ſhalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown &d of gold round about»
a4 A ſquare Border at the top of it, as verſe 11: partly for Orna _ and principally to keep what was put upon it fiom falling off.
25 Andthou shalt make unto it a border & of an hand breadth round about, and theu shalt make agot= den crown f to the border thereof round about.
e Which encompaſſed and kepr ro gether the feer of the Table, and ſeems to have been towards the bortom of it, f Nor the ſame
mentioned before, verſe 24: but another for further Ornament t6 the Table. |
26 And thou $halt make for it four rings of gold,and put the rings in the four corners chat are on the four feet there F. | |
27 Over againſt the border g $hall the rings be for - places of the ſtaves to bear the table.
s As much below the tip, as the Border was above the bottoms of the feet of the Table, which was a conv-nient place for the car-
riage. Others, near the border, in that part of the feer which is next to 1t.
28 And thou shalt make the ſtaves of $hittim-wood, and overlay them with gold,that che table may be born with them. | a el
29 And thou shaltmake the dishes & thereof and ſpoons ; thereof, and covers & thereof, and bowls thereof. + tro
cover withal 7 » of pure gold shalt thou make them- þ Tawhich the Bread and Frankincen'e upon ir were put; Levit:
+ Or, to pour ouf
which Incenſe was put, as appears from Numb 7. 14 and by wh ch withal,..
Incenſe was either pur intothe Diſhes, or taken out of them, as oc cafion required. & So the Hebrew word is uſed, Exod: 37: 16. Numb: 4:7. Herewith eitier the Pre:d, or Incenfſe,or both were covered. I To covei the ſame things. Yo this and the former were t»0 ſeve- ral ſorts of Covers, the one deeper than the othe?, one to cover the Bread,another the Incenſe. O:, Bowls thereof, to pour out withal, td wir, liquid things, as Wine and Oyl, when they were offered. See Gen: 35. 14. Or theſe lat words may relat= nor only to the Bowls, but the -ther things, here mentioned, and may be thus rendred, wherewith it, ro wit, the Table, ſhall be covered; as indeed it was in 2 manner quite covzied with theſe Veſſels. | |
o And thou shalt ſct upon the table * shew-bread
before me alway, | 8 |
m Heb: Bread of faces, or of the preſence, ſo called, becauſe it was conitantly placed in God's preſence. This Bread was divided into twelve Loaves, one for eve:y T:ibe; and they were in their name preſented to Go:i in the nature of an offeririg, as the Frankincenſs ſhews, as a publick acknowledgment, that they received all their Bread or Food, corporal and ſpuitual, from God's hand, and were to uſe it as in God's preſence. HF: | cx 8
3r * And thou halt make. » a candleſtick of pure *Chap.z goid: of beaten work $hall che candleftick be made 2: Rs his shafr o, and his branches, his bowls, his knops p, and 9. _ his flowers shall be of the ſame g.
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n Either by thy ſe], or. by ſome other perſon whom thou ſhalt Rev-1.12 cauſe to make it. o The trunk, or main body of it p Or, apples, and 4. 5+ made in form of a Pomegranite. q To wit, beaten out of the fame piece by the Hammer. Compare wer: 36:
32 And ſix branches shali come cut of the ſides of it »- three branches of the candieftick out of the one fide, and three branches of the candleſtick out of the o- ther fide. |
r Inevery one of which was a Lamp, and there was a ſeventh Lamp in the chief ſtem of it, as appears from wer: 37: And all theſe together repreſent the ſeven ſpirits of God, Rev. 1. 4. and 4: 5 and 5. 6. Or the Spirit of God, the great Enlightner cf the. Church; with his ſevenfold or various Gifts and Operations. |
23 Three bowls made like unto almonds with a knop an-' a flower in one branch : and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, 23th a knop& a flower i ſo in the ſix branches that come out of the candleſtick.
34 And inthe candleftick s ſh4/] be four bowls & made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
s (7; e., ) Inthe ſhafrorrrunk of the Candleſtick, which is here diſtinguiſhed from its branches #&- Whereas there were but thres incach of the br:nches: -
35 Andrhere ſhall be a knop under two branches of the ſame, and a knopunder two branches of the ſame, and a knop under two branches of ctheſame, according to
the ſix branches « that proceed out of the candleſtick.
« And tro compleat the number of four, mentioned in the fores going Verſe, we muſt enderſtand, that there was another knop and vowt and flower in the upper-patt of the ſhafr, above all the brart« ches, as the rules of proportion, and common uſe in making ſuch things, will eaſily evince. ITE | | |
36 Their knops and their branches ſhall be of the ſame: all ir ſhall be one beaten work of pure gold.
37 Andthou ſbalt make the ſeven lamps thereof: and *they x thall F light the lamps thereof, that they may Fe give light over-againſt * it y. _ - "ca
x Whom I ſhall appoint for that work. y( 3. e. ) Either i. The 20, and Table of Showbread Or rather 2. The Candleſtick as it is expreſ- 3%: 8- ſed, Numb. 8. 2: where by the CandleFick you are to underftand, as =&V- 26: here wer: 33, 34+ the ſtem or main body of it; and the ſenſe is, that 31,42 the Lamps ſhall be ſo placed, that they and their 1:ght may look tos 1 7; 409 wards that ftem ; unlefs you will ſuppoſe that the ſeven lamips were £9 2/cihd,
Jielick, and Giſlasd ro the fides, . Heb: of 7460 of its
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"| ap. XKVI A , j =S L : le, in ſeveral places, and all giving light to, or 0- ny end boar "erearCandleBic which was in the midit,as the Can- Jieſtick did over-againſt them, which is alſo now uſual among us: 28 And the tongs thereof, and the Snuff-diſhes there-
of ſhall be of pure gold. ; - Of a talent & of pure gold ſhall he make it, with
all theſe veſſels.
z Which contains three thouſand ſhekels, Exod: 38. 25.07 125.
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