And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
If the repetition, which might appear to be superfluous in these chapters, should be wearisome to us, let us reflect on the intention of the Holy Spirit, who, in narrating the execution of the work, uses almost the identical words wherein He had previously set forth the commands of God, viz., that we may understand that Moses, and the artificers themselves, did not vary in...
Why does Moses repeat these detailed instructions twice over when he could have said it once and left it at that? Because Israel needed to hear these sacred things again and again, just as Christ's story is told by four evangelists for the same reason: what matters most bears repeating. And Moses shows his faithfulness by laying the copy beside the original so every reader can see they match exactly.
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Commenting on Exodus 37:1-9
And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood,.... Jarchi says, because he gave his mind to this work more than the rest of the wise men, it is called by his name. It is a notion of some Jewish writers that the ark was made by Bezaleel, without the help of others; but there is no sufficient reason to be given for it; for other...