9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
9 Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
9 You are to construct it following the plans I've given you, the design for The Dwelling and the design for all its furnishings. The Chest
9 According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
9 You must build this Tabernacle and its furnishings exactly according to the pattern I will show you.
40 See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
40 And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
40 Study the design you were given on the mountain and make everything accordingly.
40 And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
40 "Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern I have shown you here on the mountain.
(Read Exodus 25:31-40)
The candlestick represents the light of God's word and Spirit, in and through Christ Jesus, afforded in this dark world to his believing people, to direct their worship and obedience, and to afford them consolations. The church is still dark, as the tabernacle was, in comparison with what it will be in heaven; but the word of God is a light shining in a dark place, Matthew 28:20, is like this, Observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. Let us remember that we are the temples of the Holy Ghost, that we have the law of God in our hearts, that we are to live a life of communion with God, feast on his ordinances, and are the light of the world, if indeed we are followers of Christ. May the Lord help us to try ourselves by this view of religion, and to walk according thereto.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 25:9
Commentary on Exodus 25:1-9
(Read Exodus 25:1-9)
God chose the people of Israel to be a peculiar people to himself, above all people, and he himself would be their King. He ordered a royal palace to be set up among them for himself, called a sanctuary, or holy place, or habitation. There he showed his presence among them. And because in the wilderness they dwelt in tents, this royal palace was ordered to be a tabernacle, that it might move with them. The people were to furnish Moses with the materials, by their own free will. The best use we can make of our worldly wealth, is to honour God with it in works of piety and charity. We should ask, not only, What must we do? but, What may we do for God? Whatever they gave, they must give it cheerfully, not grudgingly, for God loves a cheerful giver, 2 Corinthians 9:7. What is laid out in the service of God, we must reckon well bestowed; and whatsoever is done in God's service, must be done by his direction.