Exodus 31
1 Bezaleel and Aholiab are appointed and qualified for the work of the tabernacle.
12 The observation of the sabbath is again commanded.
18 Moses receives the two tables.
chosen <07121> [I have.]
Bezalel <01212> [Bezaleel.]
filled <04390> [filled.]
Spirit ... God <0430 07307> [the spirit of God.]
{Ruach Elohim,} rather, "a spirit of God;" which is a usual Hebraism, signifying "an excellent spirit;" or, as we should now say, "a distinguished genius for the work he had to perform." No man, by course of reading or study, ever acquired a genius of any kind: we call it natural, and say it was born with the man: Moses teaches us to consider it divine. The prophet Isaiah, (ch. 28:24-29,) pointedly refers to this sort of teaching as coming from God, even in the most common and less difficult arts of life. Dark as the heathens were, yet they acknowledged that all talents and the seeds of all arts came from God.
given ............... given <05414> [I have given.]
Oholiab <0171> [Aholiab.]
specially skilled <03820 02450> [wise hearted.]
make <06213> [that they.]
tent ..................... tent <0168> [tabernacle.]
ark <0727> [ark.]
furnishings <03627> [furniture. Heb. vessels.]
table <07979> [the table.]
pure lampstand <04501 02889> [pure candlestick.]
altar <04196> [the altar.]
altar <04196> [the altar.]
basin <03595> [the laver.]
anointing <04888> [the anointing.]
sweet incense <07004 05561> [sweet incense.]
Surely <0389> [Verily.]
sign <0226> [a sign.]
know <03045> [that ye may.]
keep <08104> [keep.]
[everyone.]
does <06213> [doeth.]
Six days .......... day ................... day <08337 03117> [Six days.]
Sabbath ............... Sabbath <07676> [the sabbath.]
holy <06944> [holy. Heb. holiness. whosoever.]
perpetual covenant <01285 05769> [a perpetual covenant.]
sign <0226> [a sign.]
six days ........... on .... day <03117 08337> [six days.]
refreshed <05314> [and was refreshed.]
God, in condescension to human weakness, applies to himself here what belongs to man; though it may refer to the delight and satisfaction with which he contemplated the completion of all his works, and pronounced them very good.
gave <05414> [gave.]
finger <0676> [the finger.]
