together with five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.
In the building of a house there is a great deal of work about the doors and partitions. In the tabernacle these were answerable to the rest of the fabric; there were curtains for doors, and veils for partitions. 1. There was a veil made for a partition between the holy place, and the most holy, Exo 36:35, Exo 36:36.
Commenting on Exodus 36:35-38
The five pillars of it with their hooks - Their capitals. See Clarke on Exo 26:32 (note), etc. There is scarcely any thing particular in this chapter that has not been touched on before; both it and the following to the end of the book being in general a repetition of what we have already met in detail in the preceding chapters from Exodus 25...
The verbs here shift to the third person singular with indefinite subject, like 'one made' or 'they made', to show the work proceeding as a unified whole rather than tracking individual workers. This grammatical move reflects the corporate nature of the craftsmen executing the design God had already given.
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Commenting on Exodus 36:8-38