Exodus 40:1-38

THE ORDER TO SET UP THE TABERNACLE, Exodus 40:1-16.

The formality of this command to erect the sanctuary involves an incidental repetition of what has already been described. After the due consecration of all its parts, the tabernacle and all its vessels were to be regarded as “most holy.” Comp. Exodus 30:29. In Exodus 40:10 of this chapter it is said that after its anointing the altar of burnt offerings should be a holy of holies, as if some special sanctity attached to that . Its central position and importance in the order of holy services made it a sort of counterpart, among the vessels of the sanctuary, of what the holy of holies was among the relatively sacred places of the same .

15. An everlasting priesthood To be perpetuated throughout their generations, until superseded by the office and work of the Priest “after the order of Melchizedek . ” See notes on Hebrews 7:0. Moses proceeded to perform all the commandments here given, (Exodus 40:16,) but the consecration of the priests and special legislation touching the various kinds of sacrifices must have followed the erection of the tabernacle, and is recorded in the Book of Leviticus.