* Chap. 25 * Thou lbalt not offer the bluod of my ſacrifice 23. 18. with leaven, neither ſhall the ſacrifice of the feaſt of | | ſſe-over be left unto the morning- *Deut, 26*The firſt of the firſt-fruits of thy land g thou ſhalt + 26.2. bring unto the houſe of the LORD thy God. Thou * Chap: ſhalt not 'ſeethe a * kid in his mothers milk. | 23: 19: # Thou ſhalt not delay to do this,but ſhalt bring the very firſt of | Deut: 24: them. Or, the frſt-fruits, even the firſt-fruits of thy land. Which | EIT. limitation ſeems here conveniently added, becauſe they were not | bound to bring thither all their Firſt-fruits, to wit, thole of their own Bodies, their Children. | : 27 And. the LORD ſaid unto Moſes, Write thou theſe words 42 for after the tenour of theſe words I have made a covenant with thee, and with Lfrael,
h- Obje#: God ſaith 71 will write, verſe 1. Anſw. 1. Moſes was to
- write the ritual Precepts mentioned here above,God wrote theMoral |. -Law. 2. Moſes wrote what he wrote in a Book. See Exod: 24: 7. bur what was written upon the Tables of Stone, was written by God himſelf, not by Moſes, who had no graving Inſtraments with him in
the Mount,and could not without them write upon the Stone. ' . 28 And he was there with the LORD forty days -*Chap: and forty nights : he did neither eat bread, nor drink 52P.3! water: and he * wrote & upon the tables the words of
4: 3. | the covenant, the Ten }F Commandments.
cut: 4.. # As he had been before, being now to renew the broken Cove- T3. nant- This forty days faſt of his is mentioned four times, Exod: 24. +} Heb. 18: and here, and Dexr: 9: 18: and 10: 10. but it is evident it was words. rformed but twice, as the occafion of it happened only twice.
Not "Moſes, bur the Lord, as appears from werſe r. and from Devt: 10. the relative Pronoun being here referred to the remoter antece- dent, of which there are many inſtances, as Gen: 10: 12. 1 Sam: 21. 14:and 27:8. Pſal: gg: 6. |
29 CE And it came to paſs, when Meſzs came down - from mount Sinai, (with the two tables of teſtimony in Moſes hand, when he came down from the mount ) that Moſes wiſt not that the skin of his face ſhone /, while he talked with him. "34 I Queft. Why now, and notwhen he came down ſrom God be- fore ? Anſw. 1- Becauſe now he obtained what he did not before ; to wit,z glimpſe of theDivine Ek ich though but very tranſient, lefr its print upon his face. 2. it was more neceſſary than be- fore, to procure the greater honour to Moſes, and to the Law, 2 Cor: 3.7,8,11. becauſeof the late horrid violation and contempt of them, which the Iraebrtes had fallen into. .
EXODUS.
. Ceprs both in -the Old and New-Teſtament, which yet are not in
; would net have joyned in the violation of the Sabbath,went ro one
Chap. XXXV,
ſaw Moſes, behold, the skin of his face ſhone, and they were afraid to come nigh him.
21 And Moſes called unto them : and Aaron, and all the rulers of the congregation returned wunto him m, and Moſes talked with them.
m.To the Tabetnacle, which was ftill at a diſtance from the Camp, though afterwards, God being reconciled, it was ſet up in the Camp, Exod: 4o: 34.
32 And afterward all the children of Iſrael came nigh : and he gave chem in commandment all that the LORD had ſpoken with him in mount Sinai.
33 + And zi Moſes had done ſpeaking with them, he put * a vail on his face ».
zu In condeſcention to their weakneſs.
34 But when Moſes went in before the LORD to ;+h th,m ſpeak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out : and put « and he came out and ſpake unto the chiidren of Iſrac] v:! 9 ki: | that which he was commanded. a” |
25 And the children of Iſrgel ſaw the face of Moſes SEP that the skin of Moſes face ſhone: and Moſes pur the wo __ upon his face again, until he went in to ſpeak with
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CHA P. XXXV.
The command to obſerve the Sabbath, 1--—3. and to bring a free-will offering to the Lord, 5. The furniture of the Tabernacle, 6--.-1 9. Men and women bring their jewels for the ſame. 20--===24, Underſtanding women ſpin, 25, 26. The chief of the people bring in precious ſtones, and © ſpices, 27 29. God endues Bezaleel and Aholiab with a fourit of wildom for this work, 30--==35.
N D Motes gathered all the congregation of the children of 1fracl together, and ſaid unto them
Theſe are the words which the LORD hath command
ed that ye thould do them. |
2 * Six days {hall work be done, but on the ſeventh * Chap:
day there ſhaii be to you an Þ holy day, a ſabbath of 2 #
reft to the LORD a: whoſoever doth work therein D ED ſhall be put to death. —— " a This Command of the Sabbath is repeated here, as alſo Exog: Luke T3:
31: 13. together with the Inſtructions for the building of the Taber. 14.
nacle, and its Utenſils, to thew that they were made for no other + Heb.
uſe than the Service of God, which was to be performedas every day, lineſs,
3
ſo in an eminent and peculiar manner upon -the p to teach them the fokaes neceſſity of bo he — - _ : 0 above all their Ceremonial Obſervations. uk 3 Yethall kindle no fire b throughout your habitati. ons upon the ſabbath-day. A b This command ſeems to. be only temporary and extraordinary *Ch during the preſet ſeaſon and condition, and not extending to ſuc o_—
cceding Generations, For 1. There are inſtances of temporary Pre- their piaces ſaid to be ſo. Such were ſome of the Precepts concer- ning the Paſſover, Ex9d: 12: 11. as is confeſſed. And ſuch was thar Law of abſtaining from things ſtrangled,and Blood, 4#:15; +. This Precept is nakedly propoſed, and not called a perpetual fatute, nor enjoyned to be obſerved in their Generations,as other Precepts are to whom thoſe, or ſome like Clauſes, are frequently added. 3- The S$2bbath is rather a Feaſt-day than a Faſt-day. And the Jews did make Feaſts, and invited Gueſts upon the Sabbath day, which could nor probably be without kindling a fire. And, which is more conſide. rable, Chriſt himſelf, who tulfilled all Righteouſneſs, and therefore