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In this chapter, I. The work of the tabernacle is begun, Ex 36:1-4. II. A stop is put to the people's contributions, Ex 36:5-7. III. A particular account is given of the making of the tabernacle itself; the fine curtains of it, Ex 36:8-13. The coarse ones, Ex 36:14-19. The boards, Ex 36:20-30. The bars, Ex 36:31-34. The partition veil, Ex 36:35,36. And the hanging for the door, Ex 36:37,38, etc.
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Appointment of Bezaleel and Aholiab (1491 BC)
比撒列和亚何利亚伯的任命（主前 1491 年）
¹ 比撒列和亚何利亚布，并一切心里有智慧、蒙耶和华赐智慧聪明、知道作圣所各样工的，都要照耶和华所吩咐的作工。
² 摩西召了比撒列和亚何利亚布，并一切心里有智慧、蒙耶和华赐智慧心里有智慧的，就是凡心里受感动前来作工的，
³ 这些人就从摩西手里接过以色列人为作圣所服事之工所带来的一切礼物；他们每早晨仍将甘心献的礼物带来。
⁴ 凡作圣所各样工的智慧人，各人离开他所作的工，
⁵ 对摩西说："百姓为耶和华所吩咐作的工，所拿来献的，富余有余。"
⁶ 摩西传命，他们就在营中宣告说："无论男女，不必再为圣所拿什么礼物来。"这样才拦住百姓不再拿礼物来。
⁷ 因为他们所有的材料，够作一切的工，而且有余。
I\. 工人们毫不迟延地开工。于是他们作工（出 36:1）。神既使他们合格于此工，他们便投身其中。当注意：我们所受托的才干不当积存，而当运用；不当藏在手巾里，而当拿来经营。我们一切的恩赐是为了什么，岂不是为要借之作善吗？当摩西召他们时，他们便开工（出 36:2）。神所使之合格于、又倾心于会幕事奉的人，仍须等候正当的呼召——或如先知使徒那样特别的，或如牧师教师那样寻常的。当注意摩西所召的是谁：是那些神把智慧放在他心里为此目的、超过他天然才力的人，又是心受感动前来认真作工的人。当注意：当受召去建立福音帐幕的，是那些神借恩典使之在某种程度上合于此工、又乐于投身其中的人。能力与甘心（加上决心）是呼召传道人时所当看重的两件事。神所赐的，不仅是知识，更是智慧吗？（因为那要得人的，必须智慧，且心受感动前来作工——不是只为尊荣；乃是去作，不是只说说而已）——就让他们以全心全意的决心前来，把这工做到底。百姓所奉献的材料，由摩西交给工人（出 36:3）。他们不能从无造出会幕——即从无中生有，没有材料便不能作工；所以百姓带来材料，摩西把它们交在他们手中。宝贵的灵魂就是福音帐幕的材料；他们是被建造成为灵宫（彼前 2:5）。为此他们当把自己作为甘心祭献给主、为他所用（罗 15:16），然后他们被交托给作工人的传道之手——借他们的造就和在圣洁上的长进被加工建造，直到他们全部如同会幕的幔子那样，在真道上同归于一，成为圣殿（弗 2:21,22；4:12,13）。
II\. 奉献被限制。百姓仍继续每早晨带来甘心祭（出 36:3）。当注意：我们当常把每日早晨的工作作为把祭物献给主的时机——就是祈祷和赞美的属灵祭物，并一颗完全归向神的破碎之心。这就是每日当尽之本分所要求的。神的怜悯每早晨都是新的，我们向他的本分也当如此。大概起初有些人退缩不肯献，但邻舍的积极激励了他们、使他们羞愧。少数人的热心激动了多人。有些人在善工上乐意跟随，却不肯带头。最好是积极在前，但迟来总胜于不来。或有些起先已献的，因回想此事心中得着喜乐，便再献；他们非但不吝惜所已献的，反而加倍献上。如此在慈善上，当分给七人，也分给八人——既已多给，便更多给。如今当注意：1. 工人们的诚实。他们一估算工程、看看材料还剩多少，又见百姓仍然踊跃带更多的来，便全体去见摩西，告诉他不必再奉献了（出 36:4,5）。他们若寻求自己的事，如今正是借百姓的礼物致富的良机；因为他们可以草草完工，把余下的转为己用，作为职分的酬劳。然而他们是诚实人，不屑于作如此卑鄙的事——从百姓身上揩油，以献给主的物自肥。欺骗公众的是最大的骗子。若杀多人比杀一人更恶，照样欺诈社团、抢夺教会或国家，比扒一个人的口袋是大得多的罪。但这些工人不但乐于为所收的一切交账，而且不愿收超过所需的，免得陷入试探，或落在私吞的嫌疑之下。这些人是知道何时算够的人。2. 百姓的慷慨。他们虽看见所献的已极丰富，却仍继续献，直到被宣告禁止（出 36:6,7）。罕见的实例！大多数需要马刺以激发他们的慈善；少有人需要缰绳以约束它，这些人却是。摩西若图自富，本可容他们继续献上，待工成之后把余项据为己有；但他也以公益为先，置于自己私益之上——为一切在公务受托之人树立了好榜样。经上说（出 36:5应作 36:6）：百姓被拦住不再拿礼物来；他们把不被允许为会幕多作一点看作对自己的约束——这些百姓的热心如此之大，他们按着力量，而且也过了力量，自己甘心乐意的再三求我们，准他们在这供给圣徒的恩情上有分（林后 8:3,4）。这些都是初熟之爱的果子；在末后的日子，慈善已太冷淡，我们不能指望从中得到这样的事了。
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Appointment of Bezaleel and Aholiab (1491 BC)
¹ Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
² And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
³ And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
⁴ And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
⁵ And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.
⁶ And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
⁷ For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
I. The workmen set in without delay. Then they wrought, Ex 36:1. When God had qualified them for the work, then they applied themselves to it. Note, The talents we are entrusted with must not be laid up, but laid out; not hid in a napkin, but traded with. What have we all our gifts for, but to do good with them? They began when Moses called them, Ex 36:2. Even those whom God has qualified for, and inclined to, the service of the tabernacle, yet must wait for a regular call to it, either extraordinary, as that of prophets and apostles, or ordinary, as that of pastors and teachers. And observe who they were that Moses called: Those in whose heart God had put wisdom for this purpose, beyond their natural capacity, and whose heart stirred them up to come to the work in good earnest. Note, Those are to be called to the building of the gospel tabernacle whom God has by his grace made in some measure fit for the work and free to engage in it. Ability and willingness (with resolution) are the two things to be regarded in the call of ministers. Has God given them not only knowledge, but wisdom? (for those that would win souls must be wise, and have their hearts stirred up to come to the work, and not to the honour only; to do it, and not to talk of it only), let them come to it with full purpose of heart to go through with it. The materials which the people had contributed were delivered by Moses to the workmen, Ex 36:3. They could not create a tabernacle, that is, make it out of nothing, nor work, unless they had something to work upon; the people therefore brought the materials and Moses put them into their hands. Precious souls are the materials of the gospel tabernacle; they are built up a spiritual house, 1Pe 2:5. To this end they are to offer themselves a free-will offering to the Lord, for his service (Ro 15:16), and they are then committed to the care of his ministers, as builders, to be framed and wrought upon by their edification and increase in holiness, till they all come, like the curtains of the tabernacle, in the unity of the faith, to be a holy temple, Eph 2:21,22,4:12,13.
II. The contributions restrained. The people continued to bring free offerings every morning, Ex 36:3. Note, We should always make it our morning's work to bring our offerings unto the Lord; even the spiritual offerings of prayer and praise, and a broken heart surrendered entirely to God. This is that which the duty of every day requires. God's compassions are new every morning, and so must our duty to him be. Probably there were some that were backward at first to bring their offering, but their neighbours' forwardness stirred them up and shamed them. The zeal of some provoked many. There are those who will be content to follow who yet do not care for leading in a good work. It is best to be forward, but better late than never. Or perhaps some who had offered at first, having pleasure in reflecting upon it, offered more; so far were they from grudging what they had contributed, that they doubled their contribution. Thus, in charity, give a portion to seven, and also to eight; having given much, give more. Now observe, 1. The honesty of the workmen. When they had cut out their work, and found how their stuff held out, and that the people were still forward to bring in more, they went in a body to Moses to tell him that there needed no more contributions, Ex 36:4,5. Had they sought their own things, they had now a fair opportunity of enriching themselves by the people's gifts; for they might have made up their work, and converted the overplus to their own use, as perquisites of their place. But they were men of integrity, that scorned to do so mean a thing as to sponge upon the people, and enrich themselves with that which was offered to the Lord. Those are the greatest cheats that cheat the public. If to murder many is worse than to murder one, by the same rule to defraud communities, and to rob the church or state, is a much greater crime than to pick the pocket of a single person. But these workmen were not only ready to account for all they received, but were not willing to receive more than they had occasion for, lest they should come either into the temptation or under the suspicion of taking it to themselves. These were men that knew when they had enough. 2. The liberality of the people. Though they saw what an abundance was contributed, yet they continued to offer, till they were forbidden by proclamation, Ex 36:6,7. A rare instance! Most need a spur to quicken their charity; few need a bridle to check it, yet these did. Had Moses aimed to enrich himself, he might have suffered them still to bring in their offerings; and when the work was finished might have taken the remainder to himself: but he also preferred the public before his own private interest, and was therein a good example to all in public trusts. It is said (Ex 36:5), The people were restrained from bringing; they looked upon it as a restraint upon them not to be allowed to do more for the tabernacle; such was the zeal of those people, who gave to their power, yea, and beyond their power, praying the collectors with much entreaty to receive the gift, 2Co 8:3,4. These were the fruits of a first love; in these last-days charity has grown too cold for us to expect such things from it.
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Construction of the Tabernacle (1491 BC)
会幕的建造（主前1491年）
⁸ 他们中间凡心里有智慧作会幕之工的，用十幅幔子作帐幕；这幔子是撚的细麻和蓝色、紫色、朱红色线制造的，并用巧匠的手工绣上基路伯。 ⁹ 每幅幔子长二十八肘，宽四肘，都是一样的尺寸。 ¹⁰ 他把这五幅幔子幅幅相连，又把那五幅幔子幅幅相连。 ¹¹ 在这相连的幔子末幅边上作蓝色的钮扣，在那个相连的幔子末幅边上也照样作。 ¹² 在这相连的幔子上作五十个钮扣，在那个相连的幔子末幅边缘上也作五十个钮扣；这都是两两相对的。 ¹³ 又作五十个金钩，使幔子相连，这才成了一个帐幕。
他们首先着手的是房屋的架构，这必须在器具预备之前先作成。这房屋不是用木石建造，而是用精工刺绣又彼此相联的幔子造成。这正预表教会在这世代的状况——神在人中间之国的宫殿。1. 它虽在地上，根基却不在地中，如同房屋的根基那样；不，基督的国不属这世界，也不建立在其上。2. 它卑微而易变，且处于争战状态；牧人住在帐棚里，而神是以色列的牧者；军士住在帐棚里，而耶和华是战士，他的教会经过仇敌之地行军，必须一路争战。地上的君王以香柏木围护自己（耶22:15），但神的约柜只安息于幔子之中。3. 然而圣洁之中有华美；幔子是绣花的，照样教会也以圣灵的恩赐与恩典为装饰，就是那绣花衣服（诗45:14）。4. 信徒的各个群体合而为一，正如这里，都成了一个帐幕；因为一主、一信、一洗（弗4:5）。
¹⁴ 他用山羊毛为帐幕以上的罩棚，织了十一幅幔子。 ¹⁵ 每幅幔子长三十肘，宽四肘，十一幅幔子都是一样的尺寸。 ¹⁶ 他把五幅幔子连成一幅，又把六幅幔子连成一幅。 ¹⁷ 在这相连的幔子末幅边上作五十个钮扣，在那个相连的幔子末幅边缘上也作五十个钮扣。 ¹⁸ 又作五十个铜钩，使罩棚相连，成为一个。 ¹⁹ 并用染红的公羊皮作罩棚的盖，又用海狗皮作一层罩子在上头。 ²⁰ 他用皂荚木作帐幕的竖板，站立。 ²¹ 每块板长十肘，宽一肘半。 ²² 每块板有两榫，彼此相对；帐幕一切的板都是这样作。 ²³ 他为帐幕——就是南面向南的那一面——作了二十块板， ²⁴ 又在这二十块板底下作四十个带卯的银座；两卯接这块板的两榫，两卯接那块板的两榫。 ²⁵ 帐幕的另一面，就是北面，他也作二十块板， ²⁶ 和带卯的银座四十个；这块板底下两卯，那块板底下两卯。 ²⁷ 帐幕的后面，就是西面，他作六块板。 ²⁸ 又为帐幕后面的两个拐角作两块板。 ²⁹ 板的下半截是双的，上半截完全连在一起，直到第一个环子；在两个拐角上都是这样。 ³⁰ 有八块板，和十六个带卯的银座，每块板底下两卯。 ³¹ 他用皂荚木作闩，为帐幕这面的板作五条闩， ³² 为帐幕那面的板作五条闩，又为帐幕后面西边的板作五条闩。 ³³ 使中间的闩从这一头通到那一头，穿过板腰。 ³⁴ 用金子包裹板，又作板上的金环，用以穿闩；闩也用金子包裹。
此处可见：1. 教会所受的荫庇和特别保护，由铺在帐幕之上的山羊毛幔子，以及再其上的公羊皮、海狗皮的遮盖所表明（出36:14-19）。神为他百姓预备了日头炎热之下的荫影，狂风暴雨之时的避难所（赛4:6）。他们得着了防备一切气候的装备；日头月亮不能伤害他们（诗121:6）；他们也蒙保守脱离神圣震怒的暴风——那要将谎言之避难所尽行冲去的冰雹（赛28:17）。住在神殿中的人要看见，无论狂风多么猛烈，无论雨滴如何连绵，雨都不漏进里面。2. 教会的力量与稳固——虽然它不过是一帐幕——由支撑幔子的板和闩所表明（出36:20-34）。板借穿过其中的闩相联相接；因为教会的合一、以及那些作教会支柱者彼此同心合意的契合，对教会的力量与建立贡献极大。
³⁵ 他用蓝色、紫色、朱红色线和撚的细麻作幔子，以巧匠的手工绣上基路伯。 ³⁶ 为这幔子作四根皂荚木的柱子，用金子包裹；柱子上的钩子是金的；又为柱子铸了四个带卯的银座。 ³⁷ 他又用蓝色、紫色、朱红色线和撚的细麻，以绣花的手工作帐幕门帘； ³⁸ 又为门帘作五根柱子和柱子上的钩子，用金子包裹柱顶和柱子上的杆子；柱子有五个带卯的铜座。
建造房屋时，门和隔板要费许多工夫。在会幕中，这些与其余的构造相称——有用作门的帘子，也有用作隔板的幔子。1. 有一幅幔子，作为圣所与至圣所之间的隔板（出36:35-36）。这表明那旧约时代的幽暗与隔绝，与显明神荣耀更清晰、又邀请我们就近的新约相对照；也表明我们今日所处状态与天堂相比的幽暗与隔绝——在那里我们要永远与主同在，并得以看见他的真体（约壹3:2）。2. 又有一幅幔子作帐幕的门帘（出36:37-38）。百姓在这门前聚集，虽不可进入；因为我们在现今的状态中，总要竭力亲近神，能多近便多近。
英文原文
Construction of the Tabernacle (1491 BC)
⁸ And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
⁹ The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
¹⁰ And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
¹¹ And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
¹² Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
¹³ And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
The first work they set about was the framing of the house, which must be done before the furniture of it was prepared. This house was not made of timber or stone, but of curtains curiously embroidered and coupled together. This served to typify the state of the church in this world, the palace of God's kingdom among men. 1. Though it is upon the earth, yet its foundation is not in the earth, as that of a house is; no, Christ's kingdom is not of this world, nor founded in it. 2. It is mean and mutable, and in a militant state; shepherds dwelt in tents, and God is the Shepherd of Israel; soldiers dwelt in tents, and the Lord is a man of war, and his church marches through an enemy's country, and must fight its way. The kings of the earth enclose themselves in cedar (Jer 22:15), but the ark of God was lodged in curtains only. 3. Yet there is a beauty in holiness; the curtains were embroidered, so is the church adorned with the gifts and graces of the Spirit, that raiment of needle-work, Ps 45:14. 4. The several societies of believers are united in one, and, as here, all become one tabernacle; for there is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.
¹⁴ And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
¹⁵ The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
¹⁶ And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
¹⁷ And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
¹⁸ And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
¹⁹ And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
²⁰ And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
²¹ The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
²² One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
²³ And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
²⁴ And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
²⁵ And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
²⁶ And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
²⁷ And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
²⁸ And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
²⁹ And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
³⁰ And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
³¹ And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
³² And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
³³ And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
³⁴ And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Here, 1. The shelter and special protection that the church is under are signified by the curtains of hair-cloth, which were spread over the tabernacle, and the covering of rams' skins and badgers' skins over them, Ex 36:14-19. God has provided for his people a shadow from the heat, and a covert from storm and rain, Isa 4:6. They are armed against all weathers; the sun and the moon shall not smite them: and they are protected from the storms of divine wrath, that hail which will sweep away the refuge of lies, Isa 28:17. Those that dwell in God's house shall find, be the tempest ever so violent, or the dropping ever so continual, it does not rain in. 2. The strength and stability of the church, though it is but a tabernacle, are signified by the boards and bars with which the curtains were borne up, Ex 36:20-34. The boards were coupled together and joined by the bars which shot through them; for the union of the church, and the hearty agreement of those that are its stays and supporters, contribute abundantly to its strength and establishment.
³⁵ And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
³⁶ And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
³⁷ And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
³⁸ And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
In the building of a house there is a great deal of work about the doors and partitions. In the tabernacle these were answerable to the rest of the fabric; there were curtains for doors, and veils for partitions. 1. There was a veil made for a partition between the holy place, and the most holy, Ex 36:35,36. This signified the darkness and distance of that dispensation, compared with the New Testament, which shows us the glory of God more clearly and invites us to draw near to it; and the darkness and distance of our present state, in comparison with heaven, where we shall be ever with the Lord and see him as he is. 2. There was a veil made for the door of the tabernacle, Ex 36:37,38. At this door the people assembled, though forbidden to enter; for, while we are in this present state, we must get as near to God as we can.
本章记载：I. 建造会幕的工程开工（出 36:1-4）。II. 百姓的奉献被止住（出 36:5-7）。III. 关于制造会幕本身的详细记录：细麻的幔子（出 36:8-13），山羊毛的罩棚（出 36:14-19），竖板（出 36:20-30），闩（出 36:31-34），隔开的幔子（出 36:35-36），以及帐幕门口的帘子（出 36:37-38 等）。