출애굽기 40:13의 인용 해설

THOU SHALT SET UP THE TABERNACLE OF THE TENT OF MEETING. G-d did not explain to Moses in this command the order of putting it up, as it is clearly set forth in the actual construction: and he laid its sockets, and set up the boards thereof etc.⁷¹Further, Verse 18. The reason for His not explaining it here is because He had already shown it to him visually, as He said, And thou shalt put up the Tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been shown thee in the mountain.⁷²Above, 26:30. Similarly, He shortened the account here, saying, And thou shalt put therein the ark of the Testimony,⁷³Verse 3. and did not mention and in the ark thou shalt put the Testimony,⁷⁴Above, 25:21. for since He used the phrase: the ark of the Testimony, Moses would understand this, since the ark is only termed “the ark of the Testimony” when the Tablets of the Testimony are in it, and they were already commanded at the beginning, And thou shalt put the ark-cover above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the Testimony that I shall give thee.⁷⁴Above, 25:21. It was necessary here to mention it only in order to tell him the order of priority, namely that the putting of the ark with the Tablets [into the Tabernacle] should precede the setting up of all other vessels. Similarly He shortened the account of the table and the candelabrum, since He had already commanded him in what place of the Tabernacle they were to be set up.⁷⁵Ibid., 26:35. He also shortened the subject of the dressing of Aaron and his sons, saying merely, And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments,⁷⁶Further, Verse 13. and with reference to Aaron’s sons He said, and thou shalt put tunics upon them,⁷⁷Ibid., Verse 14. for He had already told and commanded Moses in detail about the order of putting on their garments.⁷⁸Above, 29:5-9. Here the intention was only to fix the time of the dressing in its correct order, namely, after the whole Tabernacle had been set up. Of the priestly garments He mentioned only the tunics, because it is with them that the dressing began.