God is here drawing towards a conclusion of what he had to say to Moses upon the mount, where he had now been with him forty days and forty nights; and yet no more is recorded of what was said to him in all that time than what we have read in the six chapters foregoing. In this, I.

A great deal of fine work God had ordered to be done about the tabernacle; the materials the people were to provide, but who must put them into form? Moses himself was learned in all the learning of the Egyptians, nay, he was well acquainted with the words of God, and the visions of the Almighty;…

Here is, I. A strict command for the sanctification of the sabbath day, Ex. 31:13–17. The law of the sabbath had been given them before any other law, by was of preparation ; it had been inserted in the body of the moral law, in the fourth commandment; it had been annexed to the judicial law ; and…