the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen;
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.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 35:1-19
The ark and the staves thereof,.... To carry it with, which were all made of shittim wood: with the mercy seat; made of pure gold; these were set in the most holy place: and the vail of the covering; which divided between the holy and the holy of holies; of these see Exo 25:10.
The ark, and the staves thereof, [with] the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering, (c) Which hung before the mercyseat so it could not be seen.