Take from among you a contribution to the LORD. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the LORD’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;
Moses uses the noun 'willing' here where he had used a verb before, but the meaning is plain: God requires a cheerful zeal, not mere abundance but willingness. He will later distinguish those whose hearts stirred them up to give from the indifferent and slow.
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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
God will not accept a niggardly or grudging offering, for He loves a willing and cheerful giver. The heart must be generous and liberal, or the gift itself, however costly, is not acceptable to Him at all.
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