and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Don't wait to be settled before you worship God. A tabernacle in the wilderness is more needful than a palace later; our carcases may fall here, and we may be fixed in another world before we come to fix in this. Moses obeyed every particular in the order God appointed, repeating his obedience seven times over: not adding, not diminishing, not varying in the least punctilio.
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Commenting on Exodus 40:16-33
And he burnt sweet incense thereon,.... Which is another branch of the priestly office exercised by Moses, and which he would never have done had he not had a command from God for it, as follows: as the Lord commanded Moses; he commanded Moses indeed to order and direct Aaron to do this, but he being not yet consecrated, Moses, being the Lord's priest, did it.
The table stood on the north side of the front room, the candlestick opposite on the south, and the golden altar centered before the curtain of the holy place. The shew-bread was arranged in two rows upon the table according to its measure, and everything was set in place according to the pattern God had shown.
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Commenting on Exodus 40:22-28