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Here is an account, I. Of the making of the brazen altar (Ex 38:1-7), and the laver, Ex 38:8. II. The preparing of the hangings for the enclosing of the court in which the tabernacle was to stand, Ex 38:9-20. III. A summary of the gold, silver, and brass, that was contributed to, and used in, the preparing of the tabernacle, Ex 38:21-31, etc.
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The Tabernacle and Its Furniture (1491 BC)
会幕及其器具（主前1491年）
¹ 他用皂荚木作燔祭坛，长五肘，宽五肘，呈四方形，高三肘。
² 在坛的四拐角上作了四角，坛角与坛接连一块，用铜把坛包裹。
³ 又作坛的一切器具，就是盆、铲子、盘子、肉叉、火鼎，这一切器具都是用铜作的。
⁴ 又为坛作一个铜网，在坛四面的围腰板以下，直到坛的半腰。
⁵ 在铜网的四角上铸了四个环子，作为穿杠之用。
⁶ 他用皂荚木作杠，用铜包裹。
⁷ 把杠穿在坛两旁的环内，用以抬坛；坛是用板作的，是空的。
⁸ 他用铜作洗濯盆，并用铜作盆座，是用会幕门前伺候之妇人的镜子作的。
比撒列既已完成金工——虽最贵重却被安置在会幕之内最不外露之处——便转而预备院子，这院子是向众人敞开可见的。院中配备两样物件，都是用铜造的：—
I. 一座燔祭坛（出38:1-7）。他们的一切祭物都在其上献上，这坛既因神圣的命定分别为圣，就使凭信心献在其上的礼物也成圣。基督自己就是他赎罪祭的坛，照样也是我们一切感恩祭的坛。我们献祭时必须仰望他，正如神悦纳时也借着他而悦纳。
II. 一个洗濯盆，供祭司进去供职时洗濯之用（出38:8）。这预表基督的福音为洁净我们灵魂脱离罪恶道德上的污秽所作的预备——借基督的功劳与恩典，使我们得以在圣洁的本分中事奉圣洁的神。此处说这盆是用那在会幕门前聚集之妇人的镜子（或作铜镜）造成的。
1. 这些妇人似乎在敬虔上卓越而堪为榜样，比众人更频繁、更专心地聚集于公众礼拜之处；这事在此被记下，成为她们的荣耀。此后许久的亚拿便是这样的人，她不离开圣殿，禁食祈求，昼夜事奉神（路2:37）。看来教会每一个时代都有一些人，因着他们恳切火热的敬虔而如此杰出，并因此与众不同；因为敬虔的妇人实在是可尊贵的妇人（徒13:50），并不因末后日子讥诮之人称她们为愚拙的妇人而有丝毫减损。这些妇人大概是在当前为会幕服事而进行的工作上，热心协助，以此显出她们的热心。她们成群聚集（原文如此）；看见如此多人，且如此热心、如此同心地从事这善工，实在是蒙福的景象。
2. 这些妇人舍去她们的镜子（用最精的铜磨光而成），献为会幕之用。那些自负美貌、自恋己影、以穿衣戴饰为最高的装饰、借以自抬身价并博取称许的妇人，断难舍弃她们的镜子；然而这些妇人却将之献给神——或是（1.）作为她们悔改从前滥用镜子以助长骄傲虚荣的凭据：如今她们既已觉悟自己的愚妄，并奉献自己在会幕门前事奉神，便丢弃这虽本身合法有用、却曾成为她们犯罪诱因之物。这样，曾为罪人的抹大拉的马利亚，悔改归正之后，便用头发擦基督的脚。或是（2.）作为她们对会幕之工极大热心的凭据：宁可工人不缺铜、或不得上好的铜，她们情愿舍去镜子，纵然她们不能没有它。我们当永远将神的事奉和荣耀，置于我们自身的任何满足或安逸之上。凡我们可借舍弃而荣耀神的，就永不要为缺少它而抱怨。
3. 这些镜子被用来制造洗濯盆。它们或被巧妙地拼接，或被熔化重新铸造；但洗濯盆大概是磨得如此明亮，以致其四壁仍可充作镜子，使祭司来洗濯时可以看见自己的脸面，从而发现污点，洗净无遗。当注意，在悔改的洗濯中，需要自省的镜子。神的话是一面镜子，我们可在其中看见自己的脸（雅1:23）；我们必须以此对照自己的心和生活，发现自己的瑕疵，便带着特别的忧伤，将基督的宝血应用于灵魂，而得洗净。通常我们在认罪上越具体，在赦免之感中所得的安慰就越大。
⁹ 他作院子，南面向南的帷子，是用捻的细麻作的，长一百肘；
¹⁰ 柱子二十根，带铜的卯二十个；柱子上的钩子和杆子都是用银子作的。
¹¹ 北面也有帷子，长一百肘；柱子二十根，带铜的卯二十个；柱子上的钩子和杆子都是银子作的。
¹² 西面有帷子，宽五十肘；柱子十根，卯十个；柱子上的钩子和杆子是用银子作的。
¹³ 东面宽五十肘。
¹⁴ 门这边的帷子宽十五肘；柱子三根，卯三个。
¹⁵ 院子的门那边也是这样——这边那边都有帷子，宽十五肘；柱子三根，卯三个。
¹⁶ 院子四围的帷子都是用捻的细麻作的。
¹⁷ 柱子的卯是铜的；柱子上的钩子和杆子是银的；柱顶包银；院子一切的柱子都用银杆连络。
¹⁸ 院子的门帘是用蓝色、紫色、朱红色线和捻的细麻、用绣花的手工织成的，宽二十肘，高五肘，与院子的帷子相称。
¹⁹ 柱子四根，带铜的卯四个；柱子上的钩子是银的；柱顶和杆子是用银包的。
²⁰ 会幕和院子四围一切的橛子都是铜的。
院子的围墙，或称教会的院宇，与其余部分一样，是用幔子或帷子作的，照着所指示的样式而造（出27:9-19等）。这预表旧约教会的状态：它是关锁的园；那时敬拜者被局限在狭小的范围之内。但这围墙既是帷子，便暗示教会之局限于一个特定民族并非永久的。这职事本身就是会幕式的职事，可移动、可变更，到了时候要被拆卸收起，使帐棚之处扩大、绳子放长，为外邦世界腾出地方，正如《以赛亚书》54:2-3所预言。地上教会不过是神家的院子，凡践踏这院子并在其中茂盛的人有福了；但我们正经过这些院子，要进入上方的圣所。住在耶和华殿中的便为有福，他们必永远赞美他。在会幕之前围出一个院子，教导我们当渐进地就近神。供职的祭司必须经过圣洁的院子，方可进入圣所。照样，在严肃的圣礼之前，当有分别为圣、围圈封闭的严肃预备的院子，在其中我们要洗手，如此以诚实的心就近。
²¹ 这是会幕，就是法柜的会幕的平数，照摩西的吩咐，为利未人所办的，经祭司亚伦的儿子以他玛之手数点。
²² 凡耶和华所吩咐摩西的，犹大支派户珥的孙子、乌利的儿子比撒列都照样作了。
²³ 与他同工的，有但支派亚希撒抹的儿子亚何利亚伯，他是雕刻匠，又是巧匠，又能用蓝色、紫色、朱红色线和细麻绣花。
²⁴ 为圣所一切工作所用的精金，就是献为礼物的金子，按圣所的平，共有二十九他连得七百三十舍客勒。
²⁵ 会中被数的人所出的银子，按圣所的平，有一百他连得并一千七百七十五舍客勒。
²⁶ 凡过去归那些被数之人的，从二十岁以外，有六十万零三千五百五十人，按圣所的平，每人出银半舍客勒，就是一比加。
²⁷ 用那一百他连得银子，铸造圣所的卯和幔子的卯，共一百卯，一百他连得，一他连得一卯。
²⁸ 用那一千七百七十五舍客勒银子，作柱子上的钩子，包了柱顶，又用银连络柱子。
²⁹ 所献的铜有七十他连得并二千四百舍客勒。
³⁰ 用这铜作会幕门前的卯、铜坛和坛上的铜网，并坛的一切器具，
³¹ 并院子四围的卯和院门的卯，以及会幕一切的橛子和院子四围一切的橛子。
此处摘记利未人照摩西的吩咐为会幕之用所收入并使用之金、银、铜的账目。亚伦的儿子以他玛受命编制此账目，借此在较次要的服事上受训练，得以胜任更大的事（出38:21）。比撒列和亚何利亚伯须将账目呈上（出38:22-23），以他玛须稽核，呈交摩西。账目如下：—1. 所有的金子都是甘心祭；各人随力随心奉献，共计二十九他连得又七百三十舍客勒，有人折算约值现今十五万英镑的金子。一切金器皿都是用这金子造的。2. 银子是按税征收的；每人 assessed 半舍客勒，一种人头税，共计一百他连得又一千七百七十五舍客勒（出38:25-26）。他们用这银子作了卯，会幕的板子镶嵌其中、安放其上；因此卯好比会幕的根基（出38:27）。银子约合我们的货币三万四千英镑。金子以自愿奉献征集，银子以 tribute 征收，说明二者皆可用于公共开支的筹措，只要凡事不存偏私。3. 铜虽价值较低，却颇为有用，不仅用于铜坛，也用于院子的卯——别处的帐篷大概用的是木卯；但《以赛亚书》60:17有应许说：我必以铜代木。看百姓何等慷慨，工人何等忠信；在这两方面，他们美好的榜样都当为我们所效法。
英文原文
The Tabernacle and Its Furniture (1491 BC)
¹ And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
² And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
³ And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
⁴ And he made for the altar a brazen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
⁵ And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
⁶ And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
⁷ And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
⁸ And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the looking-glasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Bezaleel having finished the gold-work, which, though the richest, yet was ordered to lie most out of sight, in the tabernacle itself, here goes on to prepare the court, which lay open to the view of all. Two things the court was furnished with, and both made of brass:—
I. An altar of burnt-offering, Ex 38:1-7. On this all their sacrifices were offered, and it was this which, being sanctified itself for this purpose by the divine appointment, sanctified the gift that was in faith offered on it. Christ was himself the altar to his own sacrifice of atonement, and so he is to all our sacrifices of acknowledgment. We must have an eye to him in offering them, as God has in accepting them.
II. A laver, to hold water for the priests to wash in when they went in to minister, Ex 38:8. This signified the provision that is made in the gospel of Christ for the cleansing of our souls from the moral pollution of sin by the merit and grace of Christ, that we may be fit to serve the holy God in holy duties. This is here said to be made of the looking-glasses (or mirrors) of the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle.
1. It should seem these women were eminent and exemplary for devotion, attending more frequently and seriously at the place of public worship than others did; and notice is here taken of it to their honour. Anna was such a one long afterwards, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day, Lu 2:37. It seems in every age of the church there have been some who have thus distinguished themselves by their serious zealous piety, and they have thereby distinguished themselves; for devout women are really honourable women (Ac 13:50), and not the less so for their being called, by the scoffers of the latter days, silly women. Probably these women were such as showed their zeal upon this occasion, by assisting in the work that was now going on for the service of the tabernacle. They assembled by troops, so the word is; a blessed sight, to see so many, and those so zealous and so unanimous, in this good work.
2. These women parted with their mirrors (which were of the finest brass, burnished for that purpose) for the use of the tabernacle. Those women that admire their own beauty, are in love with their own shadow, and make the putting on of apparel their chief adorning by which they value and recommend themselves, can but ill spare their looking-glasses; yet these women offered them to God, either, (1.) In token of their repentance for the former abuse of them, to the support of their pride and vanity; now that they were convinced of their folly, and had devoted themselves to the service of God at the door of the tabernacle, they thus threw away that which, though lawful and useful in itself, yet had been an occasion of sin to them. Thus Mary Magdalene, who had been a sinner, when she became a penitent wiped Christ's feet with her hair. Or, (2.) In token of their great zeal for the work of the tabernacle; rather than the workmen should want brass, or not have of the best, they would part with their mirrors, though they could not do well without them. God's service and glory must always be preferred by us before any satisfactions or accommodations of our own. Let us never complain of the want of that which we may honour God by parting with.
3. These mirrors were used for the making of the laver. Either they were artfully joined together, or else molten down and cast anew; but it is probable that the laver was so brightly burnished that the sides of it still served for mirrors, that the priests, when they came to wash, might there see their faces, and so discover the spots, to wash them clean. Note, In the washing of repentance, there is need of the looking-glass of self-examination. The word of God is a glass, in which we may see our own faces (see Jam 1:23); and with it we must compare our own hearts and lives, that, finding out our blemishes, we may wash with particular sorrow, and application of the blood of Christ to our souls. Usually the more particular we are in the confession of sin the more comfort we have in the sense of the pardon.
⁹ And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
¹⁰ Their pillars were twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
¹¹ And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
¹² And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
¹³ And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
¹⁴ The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
¹⁵ And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
¹⁶ All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
¹⁷ And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
¹⁸ And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
¹⁹ And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
²⁰ And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
The walls of the court, or church-yard, were like the rest curtains or hangings, made according to the appointment, Ex 27:9-19, etc. This represented the state of the Old-Testament church: it was a garden enclosed; the worshippers were then confined to a little compass. But the enclosure being of curtains only intimated that the confinement of the church in one particular nation was not to be perpetual. The dispensation itself was a tabernacle-dispensation, movable and mutable, and in due time to be taken down and folded up, when the place of the tent should be enlarged and its cords lengthened, to make room for the Gentile world, as is foretold, Isa 54:2,3. The church here on earth is but the court of God's house, and happy they that tread these courts and flourish in them; but through these courts we are passing to the holy place above. Blessed are those that dwell in that house of God: they well be still praising him. The enclosing of a court before the tabernacle teaches us a gradual approach to God. The priests that ministered must pass through the holy court, before they entered the holy house. Thus before solemn ordinances there ought to be the separated and enclosed court of a solemn preparation, in which we must wash our hands, and so draw near with a true heart.
²¹ This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
²² And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
²³ And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
²⁴ All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
²⁵ And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
²⁶ A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
²⁷ And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
²⁸ And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
²⁹ And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
³⁰ And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
³¹ And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
Here we have a breviat of the account which, by Moses's appointment, the Levites took and kept of the gold, silver, and brass, that was brought in for the tabernacle's use, and how it was employed. Ithamar the son of Aaron was appointed to draw up this account, and was thus by less services trained up and fitted for greater, Ex 38:21. Bezaleel and Aholiab must bring in the account (Ex 38:22,23), and Ithamar must audit it, and give it in to Moses. And it was thus:—1. All the gold was a free-will offering; every man brought as he could and would, and it amounted to twenty-nine talents, and 730 shekels over, which some compute to be about 150,000l. worth of gold, according to the present value of it. Of this were made all the golden furniture and vessels. 2. The silver was levied by way of tax; every man was assessed half a shekel, a kind of poll-money, which amounted in the whole to 100 talents, and 1775 shekels over, Ex 38:25,26. Of this they made the sockets into which the boards of the tabernacle were let, and on which they rested; so that they were as the foundation of the tabernacle, Ex 38:27. The silver amounted to about 34,000l. of our money. The raising of the gold by voluntary contribution, and of the silver by way of tribute, shows that either way may be taken for the defraying of public expenses, provided that nothing be done with partiality. 3. The brass, though less valuable, was of use not only for the brazen altar, but for the sockets of the court, which probably in other tents were of wood: but it is promised (Isa 60:17), For wood I will bring brass. See how liberal the people were and how faithful the workmen were, in both which respects their good example ought to be followed.
此处记载：I. 制造铜坛（出 38:1-7）以及洗濯盆（出 38:8）。II. 预备为支搭会幕而围院子的帷子（出 38:9-20）。III. 在预备会幕时所奉献、所使用的金、银、铜的总账（出 38:21-31 等）。