Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
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Gill's Exposition
Speak unto the children of Israel,.... That is, when he should go down from the mountain to the camp:
that they bring me an offering; the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call it a "separation":…
Yahweh had redeemed the Israelites from bondage. He had made a covenant with them and had given them laws. He had promised, on condition of their obedience, to accept them as His own “peculiar…
Adam Clarke
That they bring me an offering - The offering here mentioned is the תרומה terumah, a kind of free-will offering, consisting of any thing that was necessary for the occasion. It signifies properly any…
We may suppose that when Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and abode there so long, where the holy angels attended the shechinah, or divine Majesty, he saw and heard very glorious things…
Cambridge Bible
offering better, contribution. The Heb. tărûmâh(from hçrîm, to liftor take off) denotes properly what is -taken off" from a larger mass, and so separated from it for sacred purposes (LXX. often…
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