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This chapter gives us an account of the finishing of the work of the tabernacle. I. The last things prepared were the holy garments. The ephod and its curious girdle, Ex 39:1-5. The onyx-stones for the shoulders, Ex 39:6,7. The breastplate with the precious stones in it, Ex 39:8-21. The robe of the ephod, Ex 39:22-26. The coats, bonnets, and breeches, for the inferior priests, Ex 39:27-29. And the plate of the holy crown, Ex 39:30,31. II. A summary account of the whole work, as it was presented to Moses when it was all finished, Ex 39:32-43, etc.
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The Tabernacle and Its Furniture (1491 BC)
會幕與其中的器具（主前1491年）
¹ 比撒列用藍色、紫色、朱紅色線做精工的衣服，在聖所用以供祭司的職分，又為亞倫做聖衣，是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的。
² 他用金線和藍色、紫色、朱紅色線，並撚的細麻做以弗得。
³ 把金子錘成薄片，剪出線來，與藍色、紫色、朱紅色線，用巧匠的手工繡在細麻上。
⁴ 又為以弗得做兩條相連的肩帶，接連在以弗得的兩頭。
⁵ 其上巧工織的帶子與以弗得一樣的做法，是用金線和藍色、紫色、朱紅色線，並撚的細麻做的，是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的。
⁶ 又琢出兩塊紅瑪瑙，鑲在金槽裏，如同刻圖書，刻著以色列兒子們的名字。
⁷ 將這兩塊寶石安在以弗得的兩條肩帶上，為以色列人做紀念石，是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的。
⁸ 他用巧匠的手工做胸牌，和以弗得一樣的做法，用金線和藍色、紫色、朱紅色線，並撚的細麻做的。
⁹ 胸牌是四方的，疊為兩層；長一虎口，寬一虎口，疊為兩層。
¹⁰ 上面鑲嵌寶石四行：第一行是紅寶石、紅璧璽、紅玉；
¹¹ 第二行是綠寶石、藍寶石、金鋼石；
¹² 第三行是紫瑪瑙、白瑪瑙、紫晶；
¹³ 第四行是水蒼玉、紅瑪瑙、碧玉；這些都鑲在金槽中。
¹⁴ 這些寶石都是按著以色列兒子們的名字，十二塊，彷彿刻圖書，各有自己的名字，按著十二支派。
¹⁵ 在胸牌上用金子擰成如繩子的鏈子。
¹⁶ 又做兩個金槽和兩個金環，把金環安在胸牌的兩頭。
¹⁷ 把那兩條擰成的金鏈子穿過胸牌兩頭的環子。
¹⁸ 又把鏈子的那兩頭接在兩個金槽上，安在以弗得前面肩帶上。
¹⁹ 做兩個金環，安在胸牌的兩頭，在以弗得裏面的邊上。
²⁰ 又做兩個金環，安在以弗得前面兩條肩帶的下邊，靠近相接之處，在以弗得巧工織的帶子以上。
²¹ 用一條藍細帶子把胸牌的環子和以弗得的環子繫住，使胸牌貼在以弗得巧工織的帶子以上，不可與以弗得離縫，是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的。
²² 他用以弗得做外袍，是織成的，全是藍色的。
²³ 外袍當中留一領口，如同鎧甲的領口，周圍織出領邊，免得破裂。
²⁴ 在外袍的底邊上，用藍色、紫色、朱紅色線，並撚的細麻做石榴。
²⁵ 又用精金做鈴鐺，把鈴鐺釘在袍子周圍底邊上的石榴中間，
²⁶ 一個鈴鐺一個石榴，一個鈴鐺一個石榴，在袍子周圍的底邊上，用以供職，是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的。
²⁷ 他用織成的細麻布為亞倫和他的兒子做內袍，
²⁸ 並用細麻布做冠冕和華美的裹頭巾，又用撚的細麻布做褲子，
²⁹ 又用藍色、紫色、朱紅色線，並撚的細麻，以繡花的手工做腰帶，是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的。
³⁰ 他用精金做聖冠上的牌，在上面刻著，彷彿刻圖書：歸耶和華為聖。
³¹ 又用一條藍細帶子將牌繫在冠冕上，是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的。
在這段關於照著指示（第二十八章）製造祭司聖服的記述中，我們可以留意：1. 祭司的聖服在此被稱為供職的衣服（出三十九1）。注意，凡穿尊榮之袍的人都當視之為供職的衣服；因為尊榮加在誰身上，就指望誰服事。經上論到那些身穿白衣的人說，他們在神寶座前，晝夜在他殿中事奉他（啟七13）。聖衣不是為了讓人睡覺、或讓人招搖用的，而是為了供職用的；這樣才真是為榮耀、為華美。人子自己也是來不是要受人的服事，乃是要服事人。2. 此處六段分別記述聖服製造過程的文字，都以是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的作結（出三十九5、7、21、26、29、31）。先前的記述中沒有這樣的話，似乎他們在製造聖服上，比會幕任何其他附屬物更特別地遵照了屬天的任命——無論是為了憑據，還是為了指引。這是向一切主的僕人暗示：在一切事奉中當以神的話為準則，遵行並順服神的命令。3. 這些聖服與會幕其餘陳設一致，非常華美燦爛；教會在嬰孩時期如此被教導、如此以世上的初級原理為樂；但如今在聖靈的執事——福音——之下，羅馬教會以端莊和教導為藉口所推行的那樣華麗的衣飾，乃是要出賣基督釋放我們所得的自由，使教會重新陷入那些只施加到改革時期的肉體條例的捆綁之中。4. 這一切都是將來美事的影兒，但實體是基督和福音的恩典；實體既已來到，戀慕影兒便是可笑的。（1）基督是我們的大祭司；當他承擔我們救贖之工時，他穿上供職的衣服——他以自己所受的聖靈恩賜和恩典裝扮自己，且不是限量領受的——以決心這條巧工織的帶子束腰，要將所承擔之工做到底——將神一切屬靈的以色列擔在自己身上，扛在肩頭，抱在懷中，放在心上，銘刻在掌中，並在審判的胸牌上呈獻於父神面前。最後他以歸耶和華為聖加冠，將自己所承擔的全工獻給父神聖潔的榮耀：現在請看這人何等偉大。（2）真信徒是屬靈的祭司。他們一切供職的衣服當用以製作的潔白細麻，就是聖徒所行的義（啟十九8）；而歸耶和華為聖當如此寫在他們額上，使一切與他們交往的人都可看見、都當說，他們身上帶有神聖潔的形象，並專為讚美他的聖潔而獻上。
英文原文
The Tabernacle and Its Furniture (1491 BC)
¹ And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.
² And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
³ And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
⁴ They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
⁵ And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
⁶ And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
⁷ And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
⁸ And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
⁹ It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
¹⁰ And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
¹¹ And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
¹² And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
¹³ And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
¹⁴ And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
¹⁵ And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
¹⁶ And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
¹⁷ And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
¹⁸ And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.
¹⁹ And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
²⁰ And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
²¹ And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
²² And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
²³ And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
²⁴ And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
²⁵ And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
²⁶ A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.
²⁷ And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
²⁸ And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
²⁹ And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
³⁰ And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
³¹ And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
In this account of the making of the priests' garments, according to the instructions given (ch. 28), we may observe, 1. That the priests' garments are called here clothes of service, Ex 39:1. Note, Those that wear robes of honour must look upon them as clothes of service; for from those upon whom honour is put service is expected. It is said of those that are arrayed in white robes that they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, Re 7:13. Holy garments were not made for men to sleep in, or to strut in, but to do service in; and then they are indeed for glory and beauty. The Son of man himself came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. 2. That all the six paragraphs here, which give a distinct account of the making of these holy garments, conclude with those words, as the Lord commanded Moses, Ex 39:5,7,21,26,29,31. The like is not in any of the foregoing accounts, as if in these, more than any other of the appurtenances of the tabernacle, they had a particular regard to the divine appointment, both for warrant and for direction. It is an intimation to all the Lord's ministers to make the word of God their rule in all their ministrations, and to act in observance of and obedience to the command of God. 3. That these garments, in conformity to the rest of the furniture of the tabernacle, were very rich and splendid; the church in its infancy was thus taught, thus pleased, with the rudiments of this world; but now under the gospel, which is the ministration of the Spirit, to affect and impose such pompous habits as the church of Rome does, under pretence of decency and instruction, is to betray the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and to entangle the church again in the bondage of those carnal ordinances which were imposed only till the time of reformation. 4. That they were all shadows of good things to come, but the substance is Christ, and the grace of the gospel; when therefore the substance has come, it is a jest to be fond of the shadow. (1.) Christ is our great high-priest; when he undertook the work of our redemption, he put on the clothes of service—he arrayed himself with the gifts and graces of the Spirit, which he received not by measure—girded himself with the curious girdle of resolution, to go through with his undertaking—charged himself with the curious girdle of resolution, to go through with his undertaking—charged himself with all God's spiritual Israel, bore them on his shoulders, carried them in his bosom, laid them near his heart, engraved them on the palms of his hands, and presented them in the breast-plate of judgment unto his Father. And (lastly) he crowned himself with holiness to the Lord, consecrating his whole undertaking to the honour of his Father's holiness: now consider how great this man is. (2.) True believers are spiritual priests. The clean linen with which all their clothes of service must be made is the righteousness of saints (Re 19:8), and Holiness to the Lord must be so written upon their foreheads that all who converse with them may see, and say, that they bear the image of God's holiness, and are devoted to the praise of it.
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The Tabernacle Completed (1491 BC)
會幕完工（主前1491年）
³² 帳幕，就是會幕，這樣做完了。凡耶和華所吩咐摩西的，以色列人都照樣做了。
³³ 他們把帳幕和帳幕的一切器具，就是鉤子、豎板、橫木、柱子，和帶卯的座，都送到摩西那裏；
³⁴ 染紅公羊皮的蓋、海狗皮的頂蓋，和遮掩的幔子，
³⁵ 見證的櫃和櫃的杠，並施恩座，
³⁶ 桌子和桌子的一切器具，並陳設餅，
³⁷ 精金做的燈臺和燈盞，就是按規定擺設的燈盞，並燈臺的一切器具，點燈的油，
³⁸ 金壇、膏油、馨香的香料，並會幕門口的簾子，
³⁹ 銅壇和壇上的銅網、壇的杠並壇的一切器具，洗濯盆和盆座，
⁴⁰ 院子的帷子和柱子，並帶卯的座，和院子的門簾、繩子、橛子，並會幕一切使用的器具，
⁴¹ 在聖所用以供職的精工衣服，和祭司亞倫的聖衣，並他兒子用以供祭司職分的衣服。
⁴² 這一切工作都是照耶和華所吩咐摩西的；以色列人就這樣做了。
⁴³ 摩西察看一切的工，見他們所做的，正是耶和華所吩咐的，於是就給他們祝福。
此處請留意，I. 會幕的建造者進度很快。從開始到完工不過五個多月。雖然其中有不少精細的工，如繡花、雕刻，不僅用金子，還用寶石，通常很費時，他們卻在很短的時間內完工。教會的工通常是慢工，但他們這件做得很快，而且做得極其精確。因為：1. 許多人參與其中，全都同心合意，彼此不爭競。這加速了工程，也使之輕省。2. 工匠們蒙神教導，因此免了出錯耽誤。3. 百姓熱心踴躍做工，急不可待地要它完工。神預備了他們的心，然後這事就迅速辦成了（代下二十九36）。決心、勤奮，加上愉快地投入心思，靠著神的恩典，能在極短的時間內——比人所預料的更短——成就許多善工。
II. 他們嚴格遵守指示，一點也不偏離。他們照耶和華所吩咐摩西的一切而做（出三十九32、42）。注意，神的工作在每一件事上都要照他自己的旨意而行。他所設立的制度既不需要、也不容許人的發明來使之更美或更可能達到其目的。他的言語，你不可加添。 神喜悅甘心的敬拜，卻不喜悅私意的崇拜。
III. 他們將一切所做的帶到摩西那裏，交給他檢查和審核（出三十九33）。摩西知道他吩咐他們做甚麼；如今逐一清點，全部呈現，使摩西可以看見：他們全都做了，沒有遺漏；而且全都照著所給的指示而做；若在哪樣上出了錯，也可以立即改正。這樣他們向那被設立在主裏管理他們的摩西表示尊敬，不推說摩西不懂這樣的工，因此不必把工作交給他審核。不，那賜他們知識去做工的神，也賜他們謙卑樂意讓人查驗、與樣式比較的心。摩西有權柄，他們就尊重他的職分。先知的靈原是順服先知的。況且，雖然他們比摩西更知道怎樣做工，摩西卻比他們對樣式有更清楚、更精確的認識；因此若不得摩西認可，他們對自己的工也不能滿意。照樣，我們在一切宗教事奉中，都當努力求蒙主悅納。
IV. 摩西查看之後，發現一切都照規矩做了（出三十九43）。摩西為了他們和自己都滿意，逐件查看一切工作，看哪，他們完全照著所指示他的樣式做了——因為那向他顯示樣式的同一位，也引導了他們做工的手。神恩典的一切副本，都與他旨意的原件完全吻合：神在我們裏面、並藉我們所做成的，正是成就他美意中的喜悅；當神的奧秘完工、他一切作為與他的旨意相比較時，必顯明一切都是照著他自己旨意的計謀而成，其中一點一畫也不落空、也不改變。
V. 摩西給他們祝福。1. 他稱讚他們，表示對他們所做的一切都認可。他不在沒有過錯之處找錯——有些人若不在最好、最完美的工作中找出點毛病來，就覺得貶低了自己的判斷力。在這一切工作中，很可能這裏那裏有走針歪線之處，足以供過分挑剔、吹毛求疵的批評者去指手畫腳；但摩西寬厚為懷，在沒有大毛病之處也不計較小瑕疵。注意，一切治理者都當稱讚行善的人，正如威嚇作惡的人。何必以難以取悅為傲呢？2. 他不僅稱讚他們，還為他們禱告。他以有權柄者的身分為他們祝福，因為向來是位分小的蒙位分大的祝福。我們沒有讀到摩西為他們的工作付過甚麼工錢，但他給了他們這祝福。因為，雖然通常工人得工價是應當的，但在這情形中：1. 他們是為自己做工。神會幕在他們中間所帶來的尊榮和安慰，已經是足夠的報償。你若有智慧，是為自己有智慧。2. 他們免費從天上得糧，供自己和家人食用，衣服也穿不破；所以他們既不需要工價，也沒有理由期望工價。你們白白地得來，也要白白地捨去。我們在責任和利益上對事奉神的義務，應當足以激勵我們做工，即使我們眼前沒有獎賞。但是，3. 這奉耶和華名的祝福，足以作為他們一切工作的工價。神所使用的人，他必賜福；他所賜福的人，實在蒙福。他所命的福，就是永遠的生命。
英文原文
The Tabernacle Completed (1491 BC)
³² Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
³³ And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
³⁴ And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,
³⁵ The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
³⁶ The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the showbread,
³⁷ The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
³⁸ And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
³⁹ The brazen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
⁴⁰ The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
⁴¹ The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.
⁴² According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
⁴³ And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
Observe here, I. The builders of the tabernacle made very good despatch. It was not much more than five months from the beginning to the finishing of it. Though there was a great deal of fine work about it, such as is usually the work of time, embroidering and engraving, not only in gold, but in precious stones, yet they went through with it in a little time. Church-work is usually slow work, but they made quick work of this, and yet did it with the greatest exactness imaginable. For, 1. Many hands were employed, all unanimous, and not striving with each other. This expedited the business, and made it easy. 2. The workmen were taught of God, and so were kept from making blunders, which would have retarded them. 3. The people were hearty and zealous in the work, and impatient till it was finished. God had prepared their hearts, and then the thing was done suddenly, 2Ch 29:36. Resolution and industry, and a cheerful application of mind, will, by the grace of God, bring a great deal of good work to pass in a little time, in less than one would expect.
II. They punctually observed their orders, and did not in the least vary from them. They did it according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, Ex 39:32,42. Note, God's work must be done, in every thing, according to his own will. His institutions neither need nor admit men's inventions to make them either more beautiful or more likely to answer the intention of them. Add thou not unto his words. God is pleased with willing worship, but not with will-worship.
III. They brought all their work to Moses, and submitted it to his inspection and censure, Ex 39:33. He knew what he had ordered them to make; and now the particulars were called over, and all produced, that Moses might see both that they had made all, omitting nothing, and that they had made all according to the instructions given them, and that, if they had made a mistake in any thing, it might be forthwith rectified. Thus they showed respect to Moses, who was set over them in the Lord; not objecting that Moses did not understand such work, and therefore that there was no reason for submitting it to his judgment. No, that God who gave them so much knowledge as to do the work gave them also so much humility as to be willing to have it examined and compared with the model. Moses was in authority, and they would pay a deference to his place. The spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets. And besides, though they knew how to do the work better than Moses, Moses had a better and more exact idea of the model than they had, and therefore they could not be well pleased with their own work, unless they had his approbation. Thus in all the services of religion we should labour to be accepted of the Lord.
IV. Moses, upon search, found all done according to the rule, Ex 39:43. Moses, both for their satisfaction and for his own, did look upon all the work, piece by piece, and behold they had done it according to the pattern shown him, for the same Being that showed him the pattern guided their hand in the work. All the copies of God's grace exactly agree with the original of his counsels: what God works in us, and by us, is the fulfilling of the good pleasure of his own goodness; and when the mystery of God shall be finished, and all his performances come to be compared with his purposes, it will appear that behold all is done according to the counsel of his own will, not one iota or tittle of which shall fall to the ground, or be varied from.
V. Moses blessed them. 1. He commended them, and signified his approbation of all they had done. He did not find fault where there was none, as some do, who think they disparage their own judgment if they do not find something amiss in the best and most accomplished performance. In all this work it is probable there might have been found here and there a stitch amiss, and a stroke awry, which would have served for an over-curious and censorious critic to animadvert upon; but Moses was too candid to notice small faults where there were no great ones. Note, All governors must be a praise to those that do well, as well as a terror to evil-doers. Why should any take a pride in being hard to be pleased? 2. He not only praised them, but prayed for them. He blessed them as one having authority, for the less is blessed of the better. We read not of any wages that Moses paid them for their work, but this blessing he gave them. For, though ordinarily the labourer be worthy of his hire, yet in this case, 1. They wrought for themselves. The honour and comfort of God's tabernacle among them would be recompence enough. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself. 2. They had their meat from heaven on free-cost, for themselves and their families, and their raiment waxed not old upon them; so that they neither needed wages nor had reason to expect any. Freely you have received, freely give. The obligations we lie under, both in duty and interest, to serve God, should be sufficient to quicken us to our work, though we had not a reward in prospect. But, 3. This blessing, in the name of the Lord, was wages enough for all their work. Those whom God employs he will bless, and those whom he blesses are blessed indeed. The blessing he commands is life for evermore.
本章記述會幕工程的完成。一、最後預備的是聖衣：以弗得和其巧工的腰帶，出 39:1-5。肩頭上的瑪瑙石，出 39:6,7。鑲有寶石的胸牌，出 39:8-21。以弗得的外袍，出 39:22-26。為次要祭司所作的內袍、裹頭巾和褲子，出 39:27-29。以及聖冠上的牌，出 39:30,31。二、全部工程的概述，即完工後呈到摩西面前的情形，出 39:32-43 等。