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- Exodus
- Chapter 31
- Verse 4
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Gill's Exposition
To devise cunning works,.... To invent, contrive, and draw patterns, for the weavers particularly, for the making of the curtains of the tabernacle, the vail of the most holy place, the ephod, and the…
Exo 35:30-35. This solemn call of Bezaleel and Aholiab is full of instruction. Their work was to be only that of handicraftsmen. Still it was Yahweh Himself who called them by name to their tasks, and…
Adam Clarke
Cunning works - מחשבת machashaboth, works of invention or genius, in the goldsmith and silversmith line.
A great deal of fine work God had ordered to be done about the tabernacle; the materials the people were to provide, but who must put them into form? Moses himself was learned in all the learning of…
in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, &c. such as would be needed for carrying out the preceding body of directions (Exo 25:10 ff.; Exo 26:15 ff.; Exo 28:9-11; Exo 28:21, &c.).
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