And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
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
And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together,.... According to Jarchi, on the morrow after the day of atonement; that is, the next day after his descent from the mount, being desirous of setting about the building of the tabernacle, and making all things appertaining to it as soon as possible; which had been retarded through the sin of the golden...
And Moses gathered - The principal subjects in this chapter have been already largely considered in the notes on chapters 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31, and to those the reader is particularly desired to refer, together with the parallel texts in the margin.