Exodus 26:30-37
rear up the tabernacle Exod 40:2, Exod 40:17-18; Num 10:21; Josh 18:1; Heb 8:2 according to the fashion Exod 25:9, Exod 25:40, Exod 27:8; Acts 7:44; Heb 8:5, Heb 9:23 a veil of Exod 36:35, Exod 40:3, Exod 40:21; Lev 16:2, Lev 16:15; 2Chr 3:14; Matt 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45; Eph 2:14; Heb 9:3-8, Heb 10:20-21 blue Exod 25:4, Exod 35:6, Exod 35:25, Exod 35:35, Exod 36:8 purple Argaman, a very precious colour, extracted from the purpura, or murex, a species of shell-fish; and supposed to be the same with the costly and much celebrated Tyrian purple. scarlet Tolaâth; properly the worm whence the scarlet colour was produced; which grew in a coccus, or excrescence, of a shrub of the ilex kind, like the cochineal worm in the Opuntia of America; which is arranged under the same genus as the Arabic Kermez, which also denotes this colour. cunning work Exod 26:1, Exod 28:15, Exod 38:23; 2Chr 2:7-13; Ps 137:5; Song 7:1 cherubims shall it be made Exod 25:18 pillars of shittim Exod 26:37, Exod 36:38; Esth 1:6 their hooks shall be of gold The Hebrew waveyhem, which we translate their hooks, is rendered by the LXX κεφαλιδες, and by the Vulgate, capiata, capitals. Hence Calmet contends: 1. That if Moses does not mean the capitals of the pillars by this word, he mentions them nowhere else; and it would seem strange, that while he describes them with so much exactness, that he should not mention the capitals; or that pillars every way so correctly formed, should have been destitute of this necessary ornament. 2. As Moses was commanded to make the wavim of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver (Exod 27:10-11), and the wavim of the pillars of the vail of gold (Exod 36:36), and that 1,775 shekels were employed in making them, overlaying their chapiters, rasheyhem, their heads, and filleting them (Exod 38:28), it is more reasonable to suppose that all this is spoken of the capitals of pillars, than of any kind of hooks, especially as hooks are mentioned under the word taches or clasps. But as the root wavah seems to signify to connect (for yww, in Arabic, is to marry a wife), and as the letter ww, wav, if it has not its name from its hook-like form, is yet used as a connective particle, it would rather appear to denote hooks, which connected the curtains or vails to the pillars. The LXX also render it αγκυλαι, "handles", and κρικοι, "rings" or "clasps". the taches Exod 27:10, Exod 36:36 within the veil Gen 9:4-5 the ark of the testimony Exod 25:16, Exod 40:21 the holy place Lev 16:2; 1Kgs 8:6, 1Kgs 8:10; 2Chr 5:7-10; Heb 9:2-3 put the mercy seat Exod 25:21, Exod 40:20; Heb 9:5 the table Exod 40:22; Heb 9:2, Heb 9:8-9 the candlestick Exod 25:31-37, Exod 40:24 hanging This may be termed the first vail, as it occupied the door or entrance to the tabernacle; the vail that separated the Holy of Holies is called the second vail, Heb 9:3. Mr. Morier (Second Journey Through Persia, p. 251), describing the tent of a chief of the Eelauts, says, "It was composed of a wooden frame of circular laths, which were fixed on the ground, and then covered over with large felts, that were fastened down by a cord, ornamented by tassels of various colours. A curtain, curiously worked by the women, with coarse needle-work of various colours, was suspended over the door. In the king of Persia's tents, magnificent perdahs, or hangings of needle-work, are suspended, as well as on the doors of the great mosques in Turkey; and these circumstances combined, will, perhaps, illustrate Exod 26:36." Exod 36:37, Exod 40:28; John 10:9, John 14:6 the tent Exod 35:11, Exod 39:33, Exod 40:29; Num 3:25, Num 9:15; 2Sam 7:6; Ps 78:60 of blue Exod 26:31 overlay them with gold Exod 36:38
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