Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs, Biblical commentary 2 · Chapter 39
CHAP. XXXIX.
1, The making of the garments of ministery, and holy garments for the Priests. 2, The Ephod. 8, The Brest-plate. 10, The setting of the twelve precious stones, in foure rowes, upon it. 15, The chaines, ouches, and rings of it. 22, The Robe of the Ephod, with the pomgranats, and bells, on the skirts thereof. 27, The Coats, Miter, Bonnets, and Girdle of fine-linnen. 30, The plate of the holy Crowne, tyed to the Miter. 32, All the worke is finished, 33, and brought unto Moses by the particulars. 43. Moses vieweth all the worke, and seeing it to be done as the Lord had commanded, he blesseth them.
AND of the blew, and purple, and scarlet, they made the garments of ministerie, to minister in the Holy-place: and made the garments of holinesse, which were for Aaron, as Iehovah commanded Moses.
And he made the Ephod of gold, of blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine-linnen twined. And they did beat-thin, the plates of gold: and he cut wiers, to worke it in the blew, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine-linnen: with the worke of a cunning-workman. They made shoulder. peeces for it, joyning together, at the two edges thereof, it was joyned together. And the curious-girdle of his Ephod, which was upon it, was of the same, according to the worke thereof; of gold, of blew, and purple and scarlet, and fine-linnen twined, as Iehovah commanded Moses.
And they wrought Beryll stones inclosed, in ouches of gold: engraven, like the engravings of a signet; with the names of the Sons of Israel. And he put them on the shoulders of the Ephod, stones of memoriall, for the sons of Israel: as Iehovah commanded Moses.
And he made the Brestplate, the worke of a cunning-workman, like the worke of the Ephod: of gold, of blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine-linnen twined. It was foure-square; doubled did they make the Brestplate; a span the length thereof, and a span the bredth thereof, doubled. And they embossed in it, foure rowes of stones, a row, a Sardius, a Topaz, and a Smaragd; the first row. And the second row, a Chalcedonie, a Saphir, and a Sardonyx. And the third row: an Hyacinth, a Chrysoprase, and an Amethyst. And the fourth row, a Chrysolite, a Beryll and a Iasper: inclosed in ouches of gold, in their embossments. And the stones were with the names of the sons of Israel: twelve, according to their names: like the engravings of a signet, every-man with his name, according to the twelve tribes. And they made upon the Brestplate, chaines at the end of wreathen worke, of pure gold. And they made two ouches of gold, and two rings of gold: and put the two rings upon the two ends of the Brestplate. And they put the two wreathings of gold in the two rings, on the ends of the Brestplate. And the two ends of the two wreathings, they fastened on the two ouches: and put them on the shoulders of the Ephod, before it. And they made two rings of gold, & put them upon the two ends of the Brestplate, upon the border thereof, which was in the side of the Ephod, inward. And they made two (other) rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulders of the Ephod underneath towards the forepart therof, overagainst the coupling thereof, above the curious-girdle of the Ephod. And they did binde the Brestplate, by the rings therof, unto the rings of the Ephod, with a lace of blew, to be above the curious-girdle of the Ephod, and that the Brestplate might not be loosed, from the Ephod: as Iehovah commanded Moses.
And he made the Robe of the Ephod, of woven worke: all of blew. And there was a hole of the Robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of an habergeon: with a binding for the hole thereof, round about, that it should not be rent. And they made upon the skirts of the Robe, pomgranats, of blew, and purple, and scarlet: twisted. And they made bells of pure gold: & put the bells between the pomgranats, upon the skirts of the Robe, round-about, between the pomgranats. A bell and a pomgranat, a bell and a pomgranat, upon the skirts of the Robe, round-about, to minister in: as Iehovah commanded Moses.
And they made Coats of fine-linnen, of woven worke, for Aaron, and for his sonnes. And a Miter of fine-linnen, and goodly-ornaments, Bonnets of fine-linnen: and linnen breeches of fine-linnen twined. And a girdle of fine-linnen twined, and of blew, and purple, and scarlet, the worke of the Embroiderer: as Iehovah commanded Moses.
And they made the Plate of the crown of holinesse, of pure gold: and wrote upon it a writing, like the ingravings of a signet; HOLINESSE TO IEHOVAH. And they put upon it a lace of blew, to put it upon the Miter, on high: as Iehovah commanded Moses.
And all the worke of the Tabernacle of the Tent of the Congregation, was finished: and the sonnes of Israel did; according to all that Iehovah commanded Moses, so did they. And they brought the Tabernacle unto Moses; the Tent, and all the instruments therof: the taches therof, the boards thereof, the bars thereof; and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof. And the covering of Rams skins, died-red; and the covering of Tachash skins: and the veil of the covering. The Arke of the Testimonie, and the bars thereof; and the Covering-mercy-seat. The Table, and all the vessels thereof; and the Shew bread. The pure Candlesticke, with the lamps thereof, the lamps to be set-in-order, & al the vessels therof: and the oil, for the light. And the Altar of gold; and the oile of anoynting, & the incense of sweet-spices: and the hanging-veil, for the doore of the Tent. The Altar of brasse; and the grate of brasse, which was for it; the barres thereof, and all the vessels thereof: the Laver, and the foot thereof. The tapestrie-hangings of the Court, the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof; and the hanging-veile for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and the pins thereof: and all the vessels of the service of the Tabernacle, for the Tent of the Congregation. The garments of ministery, to minister in the Holy-place: the garments of holinesse for Aaron the Priest; and the garments of his sons, to minister-in-the-priests-office. According to all that Iehovah commanded Moses; so the sonnes of Israel, made all the worke. And Moses saw all the worke; and behold they had done it; as Iehovah had commanded, so had they done: and Moses blessed them.
Annotations.
OF ministery] whereof see Exod. 31. 10. of holinesse] that is, the holy garments, specified in Exodus 28.
V. 2. Ephod] described in Exod. 28. 6. &c.
V. 3. beat-thinne] or, spread abroad. wiers] or threds, of those plates. in the blew] or, in the midst of (wch the Gr. translateth with) the blew, &c. For the gold thred, was twisted with the blew, & with every of the other colors, as is noted on Exodus 28. 6.
Vers. 6. Beryl] see Exod. 28. 9.
Ver. 8. Brestplate] whereof see Exod. 28. 15. &c.
V. 10. Smaragd] or, Emeraud: see Exod. 28. 17.
Vers. 22. woven worke] Hebrew, worke of the weaver: see Exod. 28. 31. &c.
Ver. 24. twisted] or twined: the Greeke addeth, and bysse (that is, fine linnen) twined. See the notes on Exod. 28. 33.
Vers. 27. coats] whereof see Exod. 28. 40.
Ver. 28. goodly ornaments] this words is sometime used for the Bonnets themselves, as in Ezek. 44. 18.
Vers. 30. crowne of holiness] that is, holy crowne, or separation, as both the Hebrew and Greeke signifieth: see Exod 29. 6. and 28. 36.
Vers. 32. so did they] this hath respect unto the charge before given, Ex. 25. 40. and for this cause, the particulars have been repeated by Moses, that all might see the care which he and the workmen had, to make all things both for matter and forme, according to the patterne and commandement given of God. Such faithfulnesse also was in Christ, Heb. 3. 2. and ought to be in all Christians, concerning Gods heavenly ordinances in his Church, whereof these things were a patterne and shadow, Heb. 8. 5. 1 Tim. 6. 13. 14. and 5. 21.
Vers. 33. bars] or, barre; an in Exod. …5. 11.
Vers. 37. to be set in order] Hebr. lamps of ordering, or, of disposition, which the Priest were to trim every day: see the notes on Exod. 27. 21. the Greeke translateth, lamps of burning.
Vers. 38. of sweet spices] in Greeke, of composition, that is, the compounded incense.
Ver. 42. all the worke] or, all the service; which the Gr. calleth Preparation, or Furniture.
V. 43 saw] or, viewed, as he that was charged with the oversight of this whole work, Exodus 25. 40. the worke] in Gr. works. blessed them] that is, as Gods publike minister, pronounced a blessing from the Lord, upon these workmen; see Gen. 14. 19. Herein Moses was a figure of Christ, who will blesse them that faithfully observe the Commandements of God, 2 Tim. 4. 7. 8. for, who so is a doer of the worke, this man shall be blessed in his deed, Iam. 1. 25. Hereupon the Hebr. say, Worke is a great thing: for Shecinah (that is, the Divine presence or Majestie of God in Christ) dwelled not in Israel, untill they had done the worke; as it is written (in Exod. 39. 43. AND MOSES SAVV ALL THE VVORKE, &c. AND MOSES BLESSED THEM. And how did heè blesse them? Hee said unto them, The Lord vouchsafe that the Divine-presence (Shecinah) may dwell in the worke of your hands. And so it came to passe: as it is said (in Exod. 40. 34.) And the cloud covered the Tent. &c. and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. R. Elias, in Reshith chocmah, fol 420. a.