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"On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting.
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God's Perfect Timing
Scholars note that even though all the parts of the tabernacle were finished, Moses waited for a specific command from God to assemble it. God chose the first day of the first month—New Year's Day of their first year of freedom. This highlights God's sovereignty over times and seasons and teaches the importance of waiting for His direction rather than rushing ahead.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See (Exodus 40:17).
19th Century
Anglican
Though the work was now complete, and all the parts of the Tabernacle made ready, Moses did not immediately proceed to erect it. As when he first w…
16th Century
Protestant
On the first day of the first month—I cannot at all approve of the opinion of those commentators who think that the tabernacle was only no…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
On the first day of the first month Which was the month Nisan, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; which was the…
When a new year begins, we should seek to serve God better than the year before. In half a year the tabernacle was completed. When the hearts of ma…
