And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
Moses never deviated from God's command in even the smallest detail, he repeated this fact precisely because men are prone to mix their own inventions with God's orders as if they could improve upon Him. If so great a Prophet dared nothing of himself in trifling matters, what arrogance drives those who arbitrarily invent countless figments for worship? Embrace with reverence what God has given; reject what men add of themselves.
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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 spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle,.... Which were curtains of goats' hair: and put the covering of the tent above upon it; which was of rams' skins died red, and over that another covering of badgers' skins: as the Lord commanded Moses; Exo 26:7.