--- title: "Bullinger" description: "the LORD (Hebrew. Jehovah. spake . See note on Exodus 6:10 , and compare note on Exodus 3:7 . the first day of the first month . Six events in Script" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/exodus/40" --- **the LORD (Hebrew.** ***Jehovah.*** **spake** . See note on [Exodus 6:10](../../../kjv/exodus/6/10) , and compare note on [Exodus 3:7](../../../kjv/exodus/3/7) . **the first day of the first month** . Six events in Scripture on this day. See note on [Genesis 8:13](../../../kjv/genesis/8/13) . **first month** . On the fourteenth day the first Pass-over was kept ([Numbers 9:1-3](../../../kjv/numbers/9/1-3) ). On the *first* day of the *second* month they were numbered ([Numbers 1:1](../../../kjv/numbers/1/1) , [Numbers 1:2](../../../kjv/numbers/1/2) ): (50 days between [Exodus 40:17](../../../kjv/exodus/40/17) and [Numbers 10:11](../../../kjv/numbers/10/11) ). In the interval comes the book of Leviticus, and [Numbers 1:1](../../../kjv/numbers/1/1) - [Exodus 10:10](../../../kjv/exodus/10/10) . On the twentieth day of the second month the Tabernacle was taken down, and the journey began from Sinai to Canaan ([Numbers 10:11](../../../kjv/numbers/10/11) ). See App-50 . **tabernacle.** = habitation. Hebrew. *mishkan,* App-40 . tent. Hebrew. *'ohel.* App-40 . **ark** . See note on [Exodus 25:22](../../../kjv/exodus/25/22) . **cover** = screen. **ark.** Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel read "ark and the mercy seat". **set in order** : i, e. in two piles, six loaves in each pile, answering to the stones on the shoulders of the High Priest. There was a golden dish at the bottom of each, and another reversed on the top, with a golden bowl of frankincense on the top. Compare [Exodus 25:23-30](../../../kjv/exodus/25/23-30) . **light** = set up, or mount. **door** = entrance. **anoint** , Compare [Exodus 30:22-29](../../../kjv/exodus/30/22-29) . **hallow . . . holy.** See note on "holy", [Exodus 3:8](../../../kjv/exodus/3/8) . **vessels** = furniture. **most holy** . Hebrew holiness of holinesses. Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ) for emphasis. **foot** = base. **tabernacle** = tent. Hebrew. *'ohel* ( App-40 ). **wash** = bathe. Compare [Exodus 29:1-4](../../../kjv/exodus/29/1-4) . with, or in. **anoint him** . Compare [Exodus 29:5-7](../../../kjv/exodus/29/5-7) . **clothe.** Compare [Exodus 29:8](../../../kjv/exodus/29/8) , [Exodus 29:9](../../../kjv/exodus/29/9) . **as** = according as. **as** = according as. See note on [Exodus 39:1](../../../kjv/exodus/39/1) , and note the seven occurrences of the expression "as Jehovah commanded Moses" in this chapter as in chapter 39. **mercy seat** . See note on [Exodus 25:1](../../../kjv/exodus/25/1) . **side** . Hebrew. *yarek = the* opposite side. **burnt offering** . Hebrew. *'olah,* See App-43 . washed. The ceremonial cleansings or "baptisms "([Hebrews 6:2](../../../kjv/hebrews/6/2) ), always performed by the persons themselves. **the work** . Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "all the work". THE APPROBATION AND BLESSING OF JEHOVAH, Corresponding with that of Moses in [Exodus 39:43](../../../kjv/exodus/39/43) . **when the cloud,** &c. This continued till Moses' death, when the ark (which till then was carried in the midst of the host) took its place and went "before them". See [Joshua 3:3-6](../../../kjv/joshua/3/3-6) , [Joshua 3:11](../../../kjv/joshua/3/11) . **children** = sons. **journeys** = journeyings. Literally settings forward. **on it** : i.e. in the cloud. **house of Israel** . 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