And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
Exodus 38:6 is one construction detail in the minute account in Exodus 25-40 of the worldly, wilderness, portable sanctuary built by Israel at God's command in the days of Moses, exactly according to the pattern and explicit directions shown and given to Moses in the mount on Sinai. It belongs to the description of the worldly sanctuary constructed in the wilderness after Israel was brought out from Egypt and through the Red Sea. The building and setting up in Exodus 33-40 came immediately after the instruction about the sanctuary in Exodus 25-31, in order after the events of Exodus 19-32.
The tabernacle it describes had two apartments separated by a veil, the holy place twenty cubits long, ten cubits wide, and ten cubits high, and the most holy place ten cubits in each dimension. Its sides and west end were made of acacia boards overlaid with gold set by tenons into silver sockets weighing a talent each and held at the top by bars through rings on the boards.
The verse records that the staves were made of shittim wood and overlaid or covered with brass. They are the staves of the altar of burnt offering, and the altar itself was brass-covered and used for offering sacrifices to God. Those who held it otherwise understood the verse as recording part of the construction of the ark's equipment, made according to the directions given earlier.
The sanctuary God instructed Israel to build was a movable dwelling-place so that He might dwell among His people. It was the portable sanctuary built by Israel at God's command and the center of earthly worship, which centered on the holy of holies, where the law of God rested beneath the mercy seat. Its construction was part of the object lesson God gave Israel to teach the plan of salvation.
The verse is part of the laws and instructions given through Moses, including the ceremonial and sacrificial system whose types and offerings reveal the substance of the new dispensation, and it belongs among the laws that are to be remembered alongside the Ten Commandments. The worldly sanctuary answered every purpose for which it was constructed yet was always typical of and foreshadowed the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man, serving unto the shadow of heavenly things as an object lesson pointing to the Lamb of God and His power to forgive sin, transform character and deliver. With the death of Christ and the rending of the veil it passed away entirely and forever.
Exodus 38:6 is one construction detail in the minute account in Exodus 25-40 of the worldly, wilderness, portable sanctuary built by Israel at God's command in the days of Moses, exactly according to the pattern and explicit directions shown and given to Moses in the mount on Sinai. It belongs to the description of the worldly sanctuary constructed in the wilderness after Israel was brought out from Egypt and through the Red Sea. The building and setting up in Exodus 33-40 came immediately after the instruction about the sanctuary in Exodus 25-31, in order after the events of Exodus 19-32.
The tabernacle it describes had two apartments separated by a veil, the holy place twenty cubits long, ten cubits wide, and ten cubits high, and the most holy place ten cubits in each dimension. Its sides and west end were made of acacia boards overlaid with gold set by tenons into silver sockets weighing a talent each and held at the top by bars through rings on the boards.
The verse records that the staves were made of shittim wood and overlaid or covered with brass. They are the staves of the altar of burnt offering, and the altar itself was brass-covered and used for offering sacrifices to God. Those who held it otherwise understood the verse as recording part of the construction of the ark's equipment, made according to the directions given earlier.
The sanctuary God instructed Israel to build was a movable dwelling-place so that He might dwell among His people. It was the portable sanctuary built by Israel at God's command and the center of earthly worship, which centered on the holy of holies, where the law of God rested beneath the mercy seat. Its construction was part of the object lesson God gave Israel to teach the plan of salvation.
The verse is part of the laws and instructions given through Moses, including the ceremonial and sacrificial system whose types and offerings reveal the substance of the new dispensation, and it belongs among the laws that are to be remembered alongside the Ten Commandments. The worldly sanctuary answered every purpose for which it was constructed yet was always typical of and foreshadowed the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man, serving unto the shadow of heavenly things as an object lesson pointing to the Lamb of God and His power to forgive sin, transform character and deliver. With the death of Christ and the rending of the veil it passed away entirely and forever.