Éxodo 27:21

Sagradas Escrituras

En el tabernáculo del testimonio, afuera del velo que estará delante del testimonio, las pondrá en orden Aarón y sus hijos, delante del SEÑOR desde la tarde hasta la mañana, por estatuto perpetuo de los hijos de Israel por sus generaciones.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
En la tienda de reunión, fuera del velo que está delante del testimonio, Aarón y sus hijos la mantendrán en orden delante del Señor desde la tarde hasta la mañana; será estatuto perpetuo para todas las generaciones de los hijos de Israel.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
En el tabern�culo del testimonio, afuera del velo que est� delante del testimonio, las pondr� en orden Aar�n y sus hijos, delante de Jehov� desde la tarde hasta la ma�ana, como estatuto perpetuo de los hijos de Israel por sus generaciones.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
En el tabern�culo de la congregaci�n, afuera del velo que est� delante del testimonio, las pondr� en orden Aar�n y sus hijos, delante de Jehov� desde la tarde hasta la ma�ana, como estatuto perpetuo de los hijos de Israel por sus generaciones.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the tabernacle of the congregation: Exodus 29:10, Exodus 29:44, Leviticus 3:8, Numbers 8:9

without the veil: Exodus 26:31-33, Exodus 40:3

testimony: Exodus 16:34, Exodus 25:16, Exodus 25:21

Aaron: Exodus 30:8, 1 Samuel 3:3, 2 Chronicles 13:11, Malachi 2:7, Matthew 4:16, Luke 12:35, John 5:35, 2 Corinthians 4:6, 2 Peter 1:19, Revelation 2:1

evening: Genesis 1:5, Genesis 1:8, Leviticus 24:3, Psalms 134:1

a statute for ever: Exodus 28:43, Exodus 29:9, Exodus 29:28, Leviticus 3:17, Leviticus 16:34, Leviticus 24:9, Numbers 18:23, Numbers 19:21, 1 Samuel 30:25

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:37 - they shall Exodus 30:7 - dresseth Exodus 39:37 - even with Exodus 40:2 - tabernacle Leviticus 24:2 - that they Numbers 4:16 - the oil Numbers 7:31 - Bowl Numbers 18:5 - And ye 2 Chronicles 4:20 - burn after Hebrews 9:6 - the priests

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the tabernacle of the congregation,.... The reasons usually given for this name of the tabernacle are, either because the children of Israel gathered and met together here at certain times, or because here the Lord met with Moses, and his successors, as he had promised, Exodus 25:22, but neither of them will hold good; not the first, because the place where the candlestick was, and which Aaron and his sons are here said to order, was in the holy place, into which only the priests entered, and therefore could not be called the tabernacle of the congregation, from the people of Israel being gathered and assembling there; not the latter, because it was in the most holy place, where the Lord promised to meet with Moses, and commune with him, even from between the cherubim over the mercy seat there: indeed, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation the children of Israel assembled, and there the Lord met them, and so the whole might be called from thence, and there seems to be no other reason for it,

Exodus 29:42 and this place was

without the vail, which is before the testimony; that is, without the vail which divided between the holy and the most holy place, and which vail was before the ark, where the law or the testimony was put; for the candlestick was in that part of the tabernacle which was without the vail, or in the holy place: and here

Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord; that is, they were to take care that the lamps which went out might be lighted; and that they be kept clear and burning, they were to trim and snuff them, for which they had proper instruments provided for them, Exodus 25:37. This points at the word of God, which shines as a light in a dark place, and is a lamp to the feet, and a light to the path, and to the constant application of Gospel ministers in preaching it, in order to enlighten men in all ages unto the end of the world:

it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations, on the behalf of the children of Israel; on whom it was incumbent to provide oil for the lamps, as long as the tabernacle and temple service lasted; and figured out either the maintenance of Gospel ministers by the churches, or the grace and gifts of the Spirit, with which they are furnished by the head of the church, often signified by oil in Scripture.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The tabernacle of the congregation - More literally, the tent of meeting. This is the first occurrence of this designation of the tabernacle, and the idea connected with it is that of Yahweh meeting with either Moses, or the priests, or (in a few cases) with the people gathered into a congregation at the entrance of the tent.

Without the rail, which is before the testimony - i. e. the holy place (see Exodus 25:16).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 27:21. The tabernacle of the congregation — The place where all the assembly of the people were to worship, where the God of that assembly was pleased to reside, and to which, as the habitation of their king and protector, they were ever to turn their faces in all their adorations.

Before the testimony — That is, the ark where the tables of the covenant were deposited. See Exodus 25:16.

Aaron and his sons — These and their descendants being the only legitimate priests, God having established the priesthood in this family.

Shall order it from evening to morning — Josephus says the whole of the seven lamps burned all the night; in the morning four were extinguished, and three kept burning through the whole day. Others assert that the whole seven were kept lighted both day and night continually; but it appears sufficiently evident, from 1 Samuel 3:3, that these lamps were extinguished in the morning: And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep, c. See also Exodus 30:8: And when Aaron LIGHTETH THE LAMPS AT EVEN. It appears therefore that the business of the priests was to light the lamps in the evening and either to extinguish them in the morning, or permit them to burn out, having put in the night before as much oil as was necessary to last till daylight.

A statute for ever — This ordering of the lamps night and morning, and attendance on the service of the tabernacle, was a statute that was to be in full force while the tabernacle and temple stood, and should have its spiritual accomplishment in the Christian Church to the end of time. Reader, the tabernacle and temple are both destroyed; the Church of Christ is established in their place. The seven golden candlesticks were typical of this Church and the glorious light it possesses, Revelation 1:12-20; and Jesus Christ, the Fountain and Dispenser of this true light, walks in the midst of them. Reader, hast thou that celestial flame to enlighten and animate thy heart in all those acts of devotion which thou professest to pay to him as thy Maker, Redeemer, and Preserver? What is thy profession, and what thy religious acts and services, without this? A sounding brass, a tinkling cymbal.

TERTULLIAN asserts that all the ancient heathens borrowed their best notions from the sacred writings: "Which," says he, "of your poets, which of your sophists, have not drunk from the fountain of the prophets? It is from those sacred springs that your philosophers have refreshed their thirsty spirits; and if they found any thing in the Holy Scriptures which hit their fancy, or which served their hypothesis, they took and turned it to a compliance with their own curiosity, not considering those writings to be sacred and unalterable, nor understanding their true sense, every one altering them according to his own fancy." - Apologet.

The reader's attention has already been called to this point several times in the preceding parts of this work, and the subject will frequently recur. At the conclusion of Exodus 25:31 (Exodus 25:31- :) we had occasion to observe that the heathens had imitated many things in that Divine worship prescribed by Moses; but in application to their own corrupt system every thing was in a certain measure falsified and distorted, yet not so far as to prevent the grand outlines of primitive truth from being discerned. One of the most complete imitations of the tabernacle and its whole service is found in the very ancient temple of Hercules, founded probably by the Phoenicians, at Gades, now Cadiz, in Spain, so minutely described by Silius Italicus from actual observation. He observes that though the temple was at that time very ancient, yet the beams were the same that had been placed there by the founders, and that they were generally supposed to be incorruptible; a quality ascribed to the shittim wood, termed ξυλον ασηπτον, incorruptible wood, by the Septuagint. That women were not permitted to enter this temple, and that no swine were ever suffered to come near it. That the priests did not wear party-coloured vestments, but were always clothed in fine linen, and their bonnets made of the same. That they offered incense to their god, their clothes being ungirded; for the same reason doubtless given Exodus 20:26, that in going up to the altar nothing unseemly might appear, and therefore they permitted their long robes to fall down to their feet. He adds, that by the laws of their forefathers they bore on their sacerdotal vestments the latus clavus, which was a round knob or stud of purple with which the robes of the Roman knights and senators were adorned, which these priests seem to have copied from the breastplate of judgment made of cunning work, embroidered with purple, blue, c. See Exodus 28:15. They also ministered barefooted, their hair was trimmed or cut off, and they observed the strictest continency, and kept a perpetual fire burning on their altars. And he farther adds that there was no image or similitude of the gods to be seen in that sacred place. This is the substance of his description but as some of my readers may wish to see the original, I shall here subjoin it.

Vulgatum (nec cassa fides) ab origine fani

Impositas durare trabes, solasque per aevum

Condentum novisse manus: hic credere gaudent

Consedisse Deum, seniumque repellere templis.

Tum, queis fas et honos adyti penetralia nosse,

Foemineos prohibent gressus, ac limine curant

Setigeros arcere sues: nec discolor ulli

Ante aras cultus: velantur corpora lino,

Et Pelusiaco praefulget stamine vertex.

Discinctis mos thura dare, atque, e lege parenturn

Sacrificam LATO vestem distinguere CLAVO.

Pes nudus, tousaeque comae, castumque cubile,

Irrestincta focis servant altaria flammae.

Sed nulla effigies, simulacrave nota Deorum

Majestate locum, et sacro implevere timore.

Punicor., lib. iii., ver. 17-31.

This is such a remarkable case that I think myself justified in quoting it at length, as an extraordinary monument, though corrupted, of the tabernacle and its service. It is probable that the original founders had consecrated this temple to the true God, under the name of אל EL, the strong God, or אל גבור EL GIBBOR, the strong, prevailing, and victorious God, Isaiah 9:6, out of whom the Greeks and Romans made their Hercules, or god of strength; and, to make it agree with this appropriation, the labours of Hercules were sculptured on the doors of this temple at Gades.

In foribus labor Alcidae Lernaea recisis

Anguibus Hydra jacet, &c., &c.