And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
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Gill's Exposition
And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet,.... Wool or yarn of either of the colours; unless it can be supposed there might be with some of them the ingredients with which…
Barnes' Notes
Bracelets - Rather, brooches. Earrings - The Hebrew word signifies a ring, either for the nose (see Gen 24:22) or for the ear Exo 32:2; Gen 35:4. That ear-rings, not nose-rings, are here meant is…
Adam Clarke
As many as were willing-hearted - For no one was forced to lend his help in this sacred work; all was a free-will offering to the Lord.
Bracelets - חח chach, whatever hooks together; ornaments for the…
Moses having made known to them the will of God, they went home and immediately put in practice what they had heard, Exo 35:20. O that every congregation would thus depart from the hearing of the word…
Cambridge Bible
The offering of menand womenalike; viz. gold (v.6; Exo 25:3), in various forms.
brooches Heb. ḥâḥ, elsewhere a -hook" for the jaw (Eze 29:4), or nose (2Ki 19:28).
earrings or nose-rings. See on Exo…
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