Exodus 40

Exodus 40:2

OF the first] That is of the second yeare after the comming out of Egypt, verse 17. Numbers 11:1-35. For the Jewes made that the set time to count their years from: see 1 Kings 6:1.

Exodus 40:4

The things] The shw bread, and all manner of vessels belonging to it, Exodus 25:29-30.

Exodus 40:15

Shall surely be] By this sacred signe the inferior Priests shall be consecrated once for all, and installed in their office, and the right of it, and the calling shall passe to their issues unto the end of this ceremoniall worship, the anointing being no more required to be reiterated in their posterity, for the high Priests only were anointed in following times, Lev. 4. 35, 11. and 16. 32. and 21. 10.

Exodus 40:29

The burnt offering] It seemeth he meanes the burnt offering, and the offering of consecration, Exodus 19:18; Exodus 19:22.

Exodus 40:31

Moses] Who all that yeare executed the office of high Priest.

Exodus 40:34

The glory] The signes of his glorious presence: So the Lord seemeth to be altogether reconciled to the people after their idolatry, and contented to dwell in the middest of them, and to conduct them, bringing of these signes again into the Campe, which had been out of it ever since the calfe, See upon Exod. 33. 9. and 34. 1.

Exodus 40:35

Was not able] Either because the cloud tooke away the use of his sight, or〈…〉ough feare, or wearines, or any other way by which God hindered him at that time from comming in to confirm so much the more the power and majesty of his presence: See 1 Kings 8:11. Afterwards it seemeth he did come into the Tabernacle; Numbers 7. 8, 9. and 11. 24. but not into the most holy place where the Arke was, and over the Arke the cloud, Levit. 16. 2 hereo] The same cloud that appeared without the Tabernacle just over the place of the Arke, did penetrate also into the Sanctuary like an obscure, darknesse, Leviticus 16:2. 1 Kings 8:12 Isay 6 4.

Exodus 40:36

In all] All their voyage through the desert, because that afterwards the cloud appeared no more without, because they had no more need of guiding nor of safeguard from the heat, but only the darknesse remained within the Sanctuary.

Exodus 40:38

And fire] The same pillar which appeared in the day time like a cloud, appeared in the night time like fire: See upon Exodus 13:21.