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Moses here receives instructions, I. Concerning the inner curtains of the tent or tabernacle, and the coupling of those curtains, Ex 26:1-6. II. Concerning the outer curtains which were of goats' hair, to strengthen the former, Ex 26:7-13. III. Concerning the case or cover which was to secure it from the weather, Ex 26:14. IV. Concerning the boards which were to be reared up to support the curtains, with their bars and sockets, Ex 26:15-30. V. The partition between the holy place and the most holy, Ex 26:31-35. VI. The veil for the door, Ex 26:36,37. These particulars, thus largely recorded, seem of little use to us now; yet, having been of great use to Moses and Israel, and God having thought fit to preserve down to us the remembrance of them, we ought not to overlook them. Even the antiquity renders this account venerable.
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The Tabernacle and Its Furniture (1491 BC)
会幕与其中的器具（主前 1491 年）
¹ "你要用十幅幔子作帐幕；幔子要用捻的细麻和蓝色、紫色、朱红色线制造，并用巧匠的手工绣上基路伯。
² 每幅幔子要长二十八肘，宽四肘；幔子都要一样的尺寸。
³ 这五幅幔子要幅幅相连，那五幅幔子也要幅幅相连。
⁴ 在这相连的幔子末幅边上，作蓝色的钮扣；在那相连的幔子末幅边上，也照样作。
⁵ 在这相连的幔子上作五十个钮扣，在那相连的幔子末幅边上也作五十个钮扣，都是两两相对。
⁶ 又要用金子作五十个钩子，用钩使幔子相连，这才成了一个帐幕。"
I. 这房屋必须是一座帐幕或帐棚，正如如今军营中兵丁所用的那样，既简陋，又可移动；然而神的约柜除此之外别无更好的居所，直到所罗门在事后四百八十年才建造圣殿（王上 6:1）。神在帐幕中向他们彰显他的同在：1. 为迁就他们目前在旷野的境况，使他们无论往何处去，都有他同在。当注意：神使他恩待的记号和恩赐，按着他百姓的需要与缺乏而相称——他的怜悯随他们的境遇而调适，或顺或逆、或定居或飘流。你从水中经过，我必与你同在（赛 43:2）。2. 为要代表神的教会在今世的状态——这是一种帐幕状态（诗 15:1）。*我们在这里本没有常存的城；*我们在今世既是客旅，又是向更美之处前行的行人，非到天上总不得安定。教会的特权是可移动的财物，可从一处移到他处；福音并不拘限于任何地方；灯台既在帐棚里，就容易被挪去（启 2:5）。我们若珍视帐幕、善用其特权，无论到哪里，帐幕都必随着我们；但我们若轻忽它、玷辱它，无论住在哪里，它都必离开我们。我所亲爱的弟兄，在我的家中作什么呢？（耶 11:15）。
II. 帐幕的幔子必须与属天的样式相合。1. 它们必须极为贵重，是同类中最好的——捻的细麻；颜色极为悦目——蓝色、紫色、朱红色。2. 它们要绣上基路伯（出 26:1），暗示神的天使在教会四周安营（诗 34:7）。正如施恩座之上有基路伯，帐幕四围也有；因为我们看见天使不仅围绕宝座，也围绕众长老（启 5:11）。3. 要有两幅幔子，每幅五幅宽，缝在一起；两幅幔子又用金钩或金钉连在一起，使整个成为一座帐幕（出 26:6）。如此，基督的教会与众圣徒虽然为数众多，却合而为一——在圣爱中联络得合式，并借着圣灵的合一，渐渐成为主里面的圣殿（弗 2:21,22；4:16）。这帐幕当年极其狭窄；但福音传开时，教会受命要扩张你帐幕之地，张大你居所的幔子（赛 54:2）。
⁷ "你要用山羊毛织十一幅幔子，作为帐幕以上的罩棚。
⁸ 每幅幔子要长三十肘，宽四肘；十一幅幔子都要一样的尺寸。
⁹ 要把五幅幔子连成一幅，又把六幅幔子连成一幅；这第六幅幔子要在帐幕的前面折上去。
¹⁰ 在这相连的幔子末幅边上作五十个钮扣，在那相连的幔子末幅边上也作五十个钮扣。
¹¹ 又要用铜作五十个钩子，钩在钮扣中，使罩棚相连，这才成了一个。
¹² 罩棚的幔子所余那垂下来的半幅幔子，要垂在帐幕的后头。
¹³ 罩棚的幔子所余长的，这边一肘，那边一肘，要垂在帐幕的两旁，遮盖帐幕。
¹⁴ 又要用染红的公羊皮作罩棚的盖，再用海狗皮作一层罩棚上的顶盖。"
此处吩咐摩西为帐幕作双重遮盖，使雨水不致漏入，使那些精美幔子的华美不致受损。1. 要有一层山羊毛呢幔子的遮盖，各边都比内幔稍大，因为它要包裹内幔，大概还与内幔保持少许距离张拉（出 26:7 等）。这些幔子用铜钩相连。料子既较便宜，钉子也就如此；但铜钩与金钩同样有效。山羊毛幔子之间的合一之结，与紫色朱红色幔子之间的一样坚固。2. 在这之上还要再有一层遮盖，而且是双层（出 26:14）：一层是染红的公羊皮，大概连毛硝制；另一层是海狗皮——我们如此翻译，但更可能是一种坚韧的皮革（且极其精细），因为我们读到最好的鞋就是用这皮作的（结 16:10）。此处当注意：(1.) 帐幕的外面粗糙简陋，它的华美在于内层的幔子。神所居住其中的人，当力求比外表所显的更好。假冒为善的人把最美的一面朝外，像粉饰的坟墓；但王女在宫里极其荣华（诗 45:13）；在世人眼中黑如基达的帐棚，在神眼中却美如所罗门的幔子（歌 1:5）。愿我们的装饰是里面隐藏的人心，那是神所看重的（彼前 3:4）。(2.) 神既把他荣耀安置何处，就必在那上面设立护卫；就是在义人的居所上，也必有遮蔽（赛 4:5,6）。神的护佑必常遮盖圣洁的华美。神的帐幕必作他的亭子（诗 27:5）。
¹⁵ "你要用皂荚木作帐幕的竖板站立。
¹⁶ 每块要长十肘，宽一肘半。
¹⁷ 每块必有两榫相对；帐幕一切的板，都要这样作。
¹⁸ 帐幕的南面，要作二十块板。
¹⁹ 在这二十块板底下，要作四十个带卯的银座；两卯座接这块板上的两榫，两卯座接那块板上的两榫。
²⁰ 帐幕第二面，就是北面，也要作二十块板。
²¹ 和带卯的银座四十个；这块板底下有两卯座，那块板底下也有两卯座。
²² 帐幕的后面，就是西面，要作六块板。
²³ 帐幕后面的拐角，要作两块板。
²⁴ 板的下半截要双的，上半截要整的，直顶到第一个环子；两块板都要这样作两个拐角。
²⁵ 必有八块板和十六个带卯的银座；这块板底下有两卯座，那块板底下也有两卯座。
²⁶ 你要用皂荚木作闩，为帐幕这面的板作五闩，
²⁷ 为帐幕那面的板作五闩，又为帐幕后面西面的板作五闩。
²⁸ 板腰间的中闩，要从这一头通到那一头。
²⁹ 板要用金子包裹，又作板上的金环套闩；闩也要用金子包裹。
³⁰ 要照着在山上指示你的样式，立起帐幕。"
此处关于帐幕的竖板，有非常详细的指示；这些竖板要支撑幔子，如同帐棚的橛子，必须坚固（赛 54:2）。这些板下有榫，插入为它们而设在银座中的卯眼里。神顾到在他帐幕中每样都要坚固，也要精美。幔子若没有竖板支撑，必被风吹动；但心被恩典坚固，才是好的——恩典正如竖板，支撑着信仰告白之幔子，否则便不能持久。竖板上下用金环相连（出 26:24），又用穿过每块板上金钉的闩使其坚固（出 26:26），板和闩都用金子富丽地包裹（出 26:29）。如此帐幕中每样都极华美，与教会那幼稚阶段相称——那时这些事物用以使孩童喜悦，使敬拜者的心存对神圣荣耀的敬畏，又使他们感受那位说我要住在这里之君王的伟大；以此类推，新耶路撒冷被称为纯金的（启 21:18）。但建造福音教会的人说：金银我都没有；然而他们所建造之荣耀，远超过会幕之上（林后 3:10,11）。*智慧比金子何等更好！*此处没有关于帐幕地板的吩咐；大概也铺了木板；因为我们不能设想，在这一切华美幔子之内，他们竟踏在冰冷潮湿的地上；若果然如此留下，或许可以叫我们想起出 20:24——你要为我筑土坛。
³¹ "你要用蓝色、紫色、朱红色线和捻的细麻，织幔子，以巧匠的手工绣上基路伯。
³² 要把幔子挂在四根包金的皂荚木柱子上，柱子上当有金钩；柱子安在四个带卯的银座上。
³³ 要使幔子垂在钩子下，把法柜抬进幔子内，这幔子要将圣所和至圣所隔开。
³⁴ 又要把施恩座安在至圣所内的法柜上。
³⁵ 把桌子安在幔子外帐幕的北面，把灯台安在帐幕的南面，彼此相对。
³⁶ "你要拿蓝色、紫色、朱红色线和捻的细麻，用绣花的手工织帐幕的门帘。
³⁷ 要用皂荚木为帘子作五根柱子，用金子包裹；柱子上当有金钩；又要为柱子用铜铸造五个带卯的座。"
此处吩咐作两幅幔子。1. 一幅作圣所与至圣所之间的间隔，它不仅禁止任何人进去，甚至禁止他们向至圣所里窥视（出 26:31,33）。在那个时代，神的恩典是隐藏的；如今我们却敞着脸观看（林后 3:18）。使徒告诉我们（来 9:8,9）这幔子的意义：它表明礼仪律法不能叫来到神面前的人得以完全，遵行它也不能领人上天堂；进入至圣所的路还未显明，头一层帐幕仍存的时候；生命和不朽都隐藏着，直到借福音彰显出来——所以基督死时这幔子的裂开便表明了这一点（太 27:51）。我们得以坦然进入至圣所，在一切敬拜中是因耶稣的血，然而这仍要使我们存圣洁的敬畏、谦卑地觉得自己的距离。2. 另一幅幔子是为帐幕的外门（出 26:36,37）。祭司每天经过这头一层幔子进去，在圣所里事奉，百姓却不能进去（来 9:6）。这幔子是帐幕防御盗贼和强盗的全部屏障，很容易被攻破——因为它既不能上锁，也不能加闩，帐幕中财富之丰，似乎是一种诱惑；然而把它这样暴露在外：(1.) 祭司和利未人就更有责任严密看守；(2.) 神要表明他顾念他在地上的教会，虽然教会软弱无能、又时刻暴露。一幅幔子（若神乐意使之如此）可以成为他居所的保障，如同铜门铁闩一样坚固。
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The Tabernacle and Its Furniture (1491 BC)
¹ Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
² The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
³ The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
⁴ And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
⁵ Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
⁶ And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
I. The house must be a tabernacle or tent, such as soldiers now use in the camp, which was both a mean dwelling and a movable one; and yet the ark of God had not better, till Solomon built the temple 480 years after this, 1Ki 6:1. God manifested his presence among them thus in a tabernacle, 1. In compliance with their present condition in the wilderness, that they might have him with them wherever they went. Note, God suits the tokens of his favour, and the gifts of his grace, to his people's wants and necessities, according as they are, accommodating his mercy to their state, prosperous or adverse, settled or unsettled. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, Isa 43:2. 2. That it might represent the state of God's church in this world, it is a tabernacle-state, Ps 15:1. We have here no continuing city; being strangers in this world, and travellers towards a better, we shall never be fixed till we come to heaven. Church-privileges are movable goods, from one place to another; the gospel is not tied to any place; the candlestick is in a tent, and may easily be taken away, Re 2:5. If we make much of the tabernacle, and improve the privilege of it, wherever we go it will accompany us; but, if we neglect and disgrace it, wherever we stay it will forsake us. What hath my beloved to do in my house? Jer 11:15.
II. The curtains of the tabernacle must correspond to a divine pattern. 1. They were to be very rich, the best of the kind, fine twined linen; and colours very pleasing, blue, and purple, and scarlet. 2. They were to be embroidered with cherubim (Ex 26:1), to intimate that the angels of God pitch their tents round about the church, Ps 34:7. As there were cherubim over the mercy-seat, so there were round the tabernacle; for we find the angels compassing, not only the throne, but the elders; see Re 5:11. 3. There were to be two hangings, five breadths in each, sewed together, and the two hangings coupled together with golden clasps, or tacks, so that it might be all one tabernacle, Ex 26:6. Thus the churches of Christ and the saints, though they are many, are yet one, being fitly joined together in holy love, and by the unity of the Spirit, so growing into one holy temple in the Lord, Eph 2:21,22,4:16. This tabernacle was very strait and narrow; but, at the preaching of the gospel, the church is bidden to enlarge the place of her tent, and to stretch forth her curtains, Is 54:2.
⁷ And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
⁸ The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.
⁹ And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
¹⁰ And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
¹¹ And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
¹² And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
¹³ And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
¹⁴ And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
Moses is here ordered to make a double covering for the tabernacle, that it might not rain in, and that the beauty of those fine curtains might not be damaged. 1. There was to be a covering of hair camlet curtains, which were somewhat larger every way than the inner curtains, because they were to enclose them, and probably were stretched out at some little distance from them, Ex 26:7, etc. These were coupled together with brass clasps. The stuff being less valuable, the tacks were so; but the brass tacks would answer the intention as effectually as the golden ones. The bonds of unity may be as strong between curtains of goats' hair as between those of purple and scarlet. 2. Over this there was to be another covering, and that a double one (Ex 26:14), one of rams' skins dyed red, probably dressed with the wool on; another of badgers' skins, so we translate it, but it should rather seem to have been some strong sort of leather (but very fine), for we read of the best sort of shoes being made of it, Eze 16:10. Now observe here, (1.) That the outside of the tabernacle was coarse and rough, the beauty of it was in the inner curtains. Those in whom God dwells must labour to be better than they seem to be. Hypocrites put the best side outwards, like whited sepulchres; but the king's daughter is all glorious within (Ps 45:13); in the eye of the world black as the tents of Kedar, but, in the eye of God, comely as the curtains of Solomon, So 1:5. Let our adorning be that of the hidden man of the heart, which God values, 1Pe 3:4. (2.) That where God places his glory he will create a defence upon it; even upon the habitations of the righteous there shall be a covert, Isa 6:5,6. The protection of Providence shall always be upon the beauty of holiness. God's tent will be a pavilion, Ps 27:5.
¹⁵ And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
¹⁶ Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
¹⁷ Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
¹⁸ And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
¹⁹ And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
²⁰ And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
²¹ And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
²² And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
²³ And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
²⁴ And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
²⁵ And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
²⁶ And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
²⁷ And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
²⁸ And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
²⁹ And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
³⁰ And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was showed thee in the mount.
Very particular directions are here given about the boards of the tabernacle, which were to bear up the curtains, as the stakes of a tent which had need to be strong, Isa 54:2. These boards had tenons which fell into the mortises that were made for them in silver bases. God took care to have every thing strong, as well as fine, in his tabernacle. Curtains without boards would have been shaken by every wind; but it is a good thing to have the heart established with grace, which is as the boards to support the curtains of profession, which otherwise will not hold out long. The boards were coupled together with gold rings at top and bottom (Ex 26:24), and kept firm with bars that ran through golden staples in every board (Ex 26:26), and the boards and bars were all richly gilded, Ex 26:29. Thus every thing in the tabernacle was very splendid, agreeable to that infant state of the church, when such things were proper enough to please children, to possess the minds of the worshippers with a reverence of the divine glory, and to affect them with the greatness of that prince who said, Here will I dwell; in allusion to this the new Jerusalem is said to be of pure gold, Re 21:18. But the builders of the gospel church said, Silver and gold have we none; and yet the glory of their building far exceeded that of the tabernacle, 2Co 3:10,11. How much better is wisdom than gold! No orders are given here about the floor of the tabernacle; probably that also was boarded; for we cannot think that within all these fine curtains they trod upon the cold or wet ground; if it was so left, it may remind us of Ex 20:24, An altar of earth shalt thou make unto me.
³¹ And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
³² And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
³³ And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
³⁴ And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
³⁵ And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
³⁶ And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
³⁷ And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Two veils are here ordered to be made, 1. One for a partition between the holy place and the most holy, which not only forbade any to enter, but forbade them so much as to look into the holiest of all, Ex 26:31,33. Under that dispensation, divine grace was veiled, but now we behold it with open face, 2Co 3:18. The apostle tells us (Heb 9:8,9) what was the meaning of this veil; it intimated that the ceremonial law could not make the comers thereunto perfect, nor would the observance of it bring men to heaven; the way into the holiest of all was not made manifest while the first tabernacle was standing; life and immortality lay concealed till they were brought to light by the gospel, which was therefore signified by the rending of this veil at the death of Christ, Mt 27:51. We have not boldness to enter into the holiest, in all acts of devotion, by the blood of Jesus, yet such as obliges us to a holy reverence and a humble sense of our distance. 2. Another veil was for the outer door of the tabernacle, Ex 26:36,37. Through this first veil the priests went in every day to minister in the holy place, but not the people, Heb 9:6. This veil, which was all the defence the tabernacle had against thieves and robbers, might easily be broken through, for it could be neither locked nor barred, and the abundance of wealth in the tabernacle, one would think, might be a temptation; but by leaving it thus exposed, (1.) The priests and Levites would be so much the more obliged to keep a strict watch upon it, and, (2.) God would show his care of his church on earth, though it is weak and defenceless, and continually exposed. A curtain shall be (if God please to make it so) as strong a defence to his house as gates of brass and bars of iron.
摩西在此领受指示：I. 论帐幕即会幕的内层幔子，以及这些幔子如何相连（出26:1-6）。II. 论山羊毛织的外层幔子，用以加固内层幔子（出26:7-13）。III. 论用以抵御风雨的保护套或盖（出26:14）。IV. 论当竖起以支撑幔子的竖板，以及与之配套的横杠与带卯的座（出26:15-30）。V. 论圣所与至圣所之间的隔断幔子（出26:31-35）。VI. 论门帘（出26:36-37）。这些细节虽然如此详尽地记录下来，在今日看来似乎对我们用处不大；然而它们既对摩西与以色列人大有用途，神又看为合适将对其的记忆存留传与我们，我们便不可轻忽忽略。单是其年代之久远，已使这记述令人肃然起敬。