the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;
Moses gave them nothing but what God commanded him, nothing more or less, he was faithful as a servant to both God and Israel, standing between them as their messenger. The sabbath came first in his charge because it outranks even the tabernacle work: no stroke of labor on the seventh day, not one, for that holy rest belongs to God alone.
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Commenting on Exodus 35:1-19
The tabernacle here means the ten linen curtains themselves, not the whole structure; the tent is the goats' hair covering over them, and the covering above that is the rams' and badgers' skins. The clasps of silver and brass joined the curtains together, while the shittim-wood boards formed the walls, the bars held them firm, the pillars bore the hangings, and the silver sockets fixed everything fast to the ground.
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