Bible Commentaries

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy ^a day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

(a) In which you shall rest from all bodily work.

And every wise ^b hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;

(b) See (Exodus 28:3).

The ark, and the staves thereof, [with] the mercy seat, and the vail of the ^c covering,

(c) Which hung before the mercyseat so it could not be seen.

The ^d cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place], the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.

(d) Such as belong to the service of the tabernacle.

And all the women that were ^e wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, [both] of blue, and of purple, [and] of scarlet, and of fine linen.

(e) Who were witty and expert.

And all the women ^f whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' [hair].

(f) That is, who were good spinners.

The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made ^g by the hand of Moses.

(g) Using Moses as a minister of it.

Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner ^h of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, [even] of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

(h) Belonging to graving or carving, or such like.