And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:31 is one detail in the preparation, fitting, making, and setting up of the wilderness tabernacle told in the last six chapters of Exodus, in Exodus 25-40, in Exodus 33-40, in Exodus 35-40, and in Exodus 36-40. The instruction concerning the sanctuary given to Moses in the mount in Exodus 25-31 was immediately followed by the building and setting up described in Exodus 33-40 and in Exodus 35-40. The Tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year from the Exodus.
Within that account the verse belongs to the making of the tabernacle furnishings and the sanctuary garments. It identifies the mitre as part of the priests' clothing, notes that the high priest's garments included the white linen worn by the other priests, and records the tying of a lace of blue to fasten it on high upon the mitre. That record supports the historical plausibility of the account, since fine linen work and skilled goldworking existed long before the Exodus.
The verse shows one act of exact obedience in building the worldly sanctuary first pitched in the wilderness after deliverance from Egypt and Egyptian bondage. The work was done in all its dimensions, material, and furnishings exactly as God directed and as the Lord commanded Moses, according to the divine pattern and explicit directions given to Moses in the mount, and the completed work was inspected by Moses as a true pattern. The sanctuary was built at God's command from the free-will offerings of the children of Israel by workmen God specially endowed, so that God might dwell among them and among men. It was the center of Israel's worship centering on the Most Holy Place, where the law of God rested beneath the mercy seat.
The sanctuary was a great, marvelously beautiful, multiple object-lesson given after Israel's deliverance to teach the plan of salvation and God's way to a people unfitted by slavery to comprehend God's salvation and required character. The faithful carrying out recorded in the verse shares in the wonderful blessing and glory that came down upon the congregation and the completed building. That includes the sanctuary's inauguration, when God's manifested glory showed that He accepted the people's repentance. That earthly sanctuary answered every purpose for which it was constructed, yet its leading features were always typical of and foreshadowed the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man, serving as a pattern and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary and Christ's priestly work and unto the shadow of heavenly things. All its rites pointed to the Lamb of God and His power to forgive sin, transform character, and deliver from burdens, until the typical and shadowy system passed away entirely and forever at the death of Christ when the temple veil was rent.
Exodus 39:31 is one detail in the preparation, fitting, making, and setting up of the wilderness tabernacle told in the last six chapters of Exodus, in Exodus 25-40, in Exodus 33-40, in Exodus 35-40, and in Exodus 36-40. The instruction concerning the sanctuary given to Moses in the mount in Exodus 25-31 was immediately followed by the building and setting up described in Exodus 33-40 and in Exodus 35-40. The Tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year from the Exodus.
Within that account the verse belongs to the making of the tabernacle furnishings and the sanctuary garments. It identifies the mitre as part of the priests' clothing, notes that the high priest's garments included the white linen worn by the other priests, and records the tying of a lace of blue to fasten it on high upon the mitre. That record supports the historical plausibility of the account, since fine linen work and skilled goldworking existed long before the Exodus.
The verse shows one act of exact obedience in building the worldly sanctuary first pitched in the wilderness after deliverance from Egypt and Egyptian bondage. The work was done in all its dimensions, material, and furnishings exactly as God directed and as the Lord commanded Moses, according to the divine pattern and explicit directions given to Moses in the mount, and the completed work was inspected by Moses as a true pattern. The sanctuary was built at God's command from the free-will offerings of the children of Israel by workmen God specially endowed, so that God might dwell among them and among men. It was the center of Israel's worship centering on the Most Holy Place, where the law of God rested beneath the mercy seat.
The sanctuary was a great, marvelously beautiful, multiple object-lesson given after Israel's deliverance to teach the plan of salvation and God's way to a people unfitted by slavery to comprehend God's salvation and required character. The faithful carrying out recorded in the verse shares in the wonderful blessing and glory that came down upon the congregation and the completed building. That includes the sanctuary's inauguration, when God's manifested glory showed that He accepted the people's repentance. That earthly sanctuary answered every purpose for which it was constructed, yet its leading features were always typical of and foreshadowed the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man, serving as a pattern and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary and Christ's priestly work and unto the shadow of heavenly things. All its rites pointed to the Lamb of God and His power to forgive sin, transform character, and deliver from burdens, until the typical and shadowy system passed away entirely and forever at the death of Christ when the temple veil was rent.