It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
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It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
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This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
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It shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak there unto thee.
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Passages linked to Exodus 29:42 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 25:22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, declare myself to you.
Or, declare myself to you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 29:42 [This shall be] a continual burnt offering…
Exo 29:42 [This shall be] a continual burnt offering throughout your generations [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
Ver. 42. Where I will meet you.] Hence it was called "the tabernacle of the congregation," because there God met them, and made a covenant with them. See Exo 40:34.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain 1. At which door, for there the Lord stood…
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1. At which door, for there the Lord stood and talked with Moses, Exo 33:9,10. Or rather,
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2. In which tabernacle, to wit, in the innermost part of it, because that was the principal place where God did ordinarily reside and meet with his people, Exo 30:6; Lev 16:2; whereas God met but once at the door of the tabernacle, and that with Moses only, not with the people, with whom he is said to meet in this place, Exo 29:43. Add to this, that the place where God meets them is the same place which is sanctified by his glory, and that was the tabernacle, Exo 29:43, as it is expressed in our translation, and sufficiently implied in the Hebrew, by a common ellipsis of the pronoun it, i. e. that place where I meet with you, to wit, the tabernacle, shall be, &c.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your…
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations,.... To be offered up morning and evening in every age, as long as the Mosaic economy lasted, till he came, who put an end to it by offering up himself, the antitype of it:
at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord; that is, upon the altar of burnt offering which stood there, see Exo 40:29,
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where I will meet you to speak there unto thee; to accept of their sacrifices, give further directions of what was to be done, and answers to inquiries made of him in matters of moment and difficulty. Jarchi observes, that some of their Rabbins conclude from hence, that the holy blessed God spoke with Moses from off the altar of brass, after the tabernacle was set up; but others say from off the mercy seat, as in Exo 25:22.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain
CHAPTER XXIX.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 42. a continual burnt offering] i.e. a burnt-offering recurring…
42. a continual burnt offering] i.e. a burnt-offering recurring regularly: so Num_28:3; Num_28:6; Num_28:10; Num_28:15 al., Eze_46:15. The same word continual (or continually) is also used often besides, esp. in P, of standing institutions of the theocracy, as Exo_25:30 Heb., Exo_27:20 (see the note), Exo_28:29-30; Exo_28:38; Exo_30:8 al.
throughout your generations] see on Exo_12:14.
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door] entrance.
where] i.e. in the Tent of Meeting; cf. Exo_25:22, Exo_30:36. For you, Sam. LXX. have thee, as in these passages. The clause beginning here leads on to vv. 43–46.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Throughout your generations. Rather, for your generations." The tabernacle…
Throughout your generations. Rather, for your generations." The tabernacle of the congregation. Rather, "of meeting tabernacle of meeting, where I will meet you." The verb and substantive are modifications of the same word, dw. It is this passage which definitely fixes the meaning of the phrase incorrectly rendered "the tabernacle of the congregation" by our translators.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 29:42-46 The purpose of the Tabernacle, the priesthood, and…
29:42-46 The purpose of the Tabernacle, the priesthood, and the sacrificial system was to facilitate human fellowship with God. The Lord would meet with his people there (29:42, 43) and speak with them (29:42). He would live among them as their God (29:45, 46).
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