Exodus 40:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 40:2

See Exodus 40:17. read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 40:2

Exodus 40:2. Thou shalt set up the tabernacle The time for doing this was, On the first day of the first month This wanted but fourteen days of a year since they came out of Egypt. Probably the work was made ready just at the end of the year, so that the appointing this day gave no delay. In Hezekiah’s time they began to sanctify the temple on the first day of the first month, 2 Chronicles 29:17. The new moon (which, by their computation, was the first day of every month) was observed by... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 40:1-38

35:1-40:38 CONSTRUCTION OF THE TABERNACLEThis section largely repeats the instruction given on the mountain in Chapters 25-31. It emphasizes that the people had to do God’s work according to his covenant requirements. Therefore, they were to keep the Sabbath (35:1-3; cf. 31:16). If they wanted God to accept their offerings for the building of the tabernacle, they had to present those offerings in a spirit of joy and willingness (35:4-29). Though all could give offerings, only those with the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 40:2

the first day of the first month . Six events in Scripture on this day. See note on Genesis 8:13 . first month . On the fourteenth day the first Pass-over was kept (Numbers 9:1-3 ). On the first day of the second month they were numbered (Numbers 1:1 , Numbers 1:2 ): (50 days between Exodus 40:17 and Numbers 10:11 ). In the interval comes the book of Leviticus, and Numbers 1:1 - Exodus 10:10 . On the twentieth day of the second month the Tabernacle was taken down, and the journey began from... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 40:1-38

"And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.Exodus 25:8. This also gives the reason for the Tabernacle, that might, in a very special way, dwell among them."[1] And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the ark with the veil.[2] And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 40:2

Exodus 40:2. On the first day of the first month— That is, of the second year after the departure from Egypt. See the 17th verse, and the last note on the former chapter. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 40:2

2. On the first day of the first month—From a careful consideration of the incidents recorded to have happened after the exodus (Exodus 12:2; Exodus 13:4; Exodus 19:1; Exodus 20:18; Exodus 34:28, c.), it has been computed that the work of the tabernacle was commenced within six months after that emigration and consequently, that other six months had been occupied in building it. So long a period spent in preparing the materials of a movable pavilion, it would be difficult to understand, were it... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 40:1-38

The Tabernacle Erected1-16. Moses is commanded to uprear the Tabernacle and consecrate it, together with its furniture, and the priests by anointing them.2. On the first day of the first month] i.e. of the month Abib (see on Exodus 12:2, Exodus 12:41) in the second year after the exodus from Egypt (Exodus 40:17). They left Egypt on the fifteenth day of Abib, and arrived at Sinai in the third month: see Exodus 19:1.4. The things to be set upon it] i.e. the shewbread (see Exodus 40:23 and on... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 40:1-8

XL.THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE UPREARING OF THE TABERNACLE.(1-8) Though the work was now complete, and all the parts of the Tabernacle made ready, Moses did not at once proceed to erect it. As when he first went up into Sinai (Exodus 24:16), so now, he waited for a Divine summons, a distinct command fixing the time for him to do that which he knew that he had to do. There is an importance and a fitness in “times and seasons,” which the Great Father often reserves it to Himself to determine (Acts... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 40:2

(2) On the first day of the first month.—The Israelites had quitted Egypt on the fourteenth day of the first month, Abib (Exodus 12:6). They had reached the wilderness of Sinai in the course of the third month, Sivan, and encamped in front of Sinai shortly after (Exodus 19:1-2). The two long absences of Moses in the Mount had occupied nearly three months, and were separated by an interval probably of several days. It must have been the sixth or seventh month before the work was commenced, and... read more

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