And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
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 Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation,.... He had been there before, both in the holy, and in the most holy place, to see that the furniture of each were put as the Lord directed, which being done he came out again; and now a cloud being on the outside of it, and the glory of the Lord within...
The altar stood at distance from the tabernacle entrance, not close to it, with the laver between them to the side so the priests could wash without passing near the altar. The court was enclosed last, after everything was set in place. Notably, the sacrificial service began before these things were anointed, following naturally from the text itself.
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Commenting on Exodus 40:29-33