Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Exodus 39:32 - 39:32

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Exodus 39:32 - 39:32


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Delivery of the work to Moses. - The different things are again mentioned one by one. By “the tent,” in Exo 39:33, we are to understand the two tent-cloths, the one of purple and the other of goats' hair, by which the dwelling (מִשְׁכָּן, generally rendered tabernacle) was made into a tent (אֹלֶה). From this it is perfectly obvious, that the variegated cloth formed the inner walls of the dwelling, or covered the boards on the inner side, and that the goats' hair-cloth formed the other covering. Moreover it is also obvious, that this is the way in which הָאֹהֶל is to be understood, from the fact, that in the list of the things belonging to the ohel the first to be mentioned are the gold and copper hooks (Exo 26:6, Exo 26:11) with which the two halves of the drapery that formed the tent were joined together, and then after that the boards, bolts, pillars, and sockets, as though subordinate to the tent-cloths, and only intended to answer the purpose of spreading them out into a tent of dwelling.