Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Exodus)
我夜间的歌曲《出埃及记》
Text: Exodus 36: 20-34
MEDITATION
Exodus 36:20-34
20 For the tabernacle he made boards of acacia wood, standing upright.
21 The length of each board was ten cubits, and the width of each board a cubit and a half.
22 Each board had two tenons for binding one to another. Thus he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.
23 And he made boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side.
24 Forty sockets of silver he made to go under the twenty boards: two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons.
25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards
26 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under each of the boards.
27 For the west side of the tabernacle he made six boards.
28 He also made two boards for the two back corners of the tabernacle.
29 And they were coupled at the bottom and coupled together at the top by one ring. Thus he made both of them for the two corners.
30 So there were eight boards and their sockets—sixteen sockets of silver—two sockets under each of the boards.
31 And he made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle,
32 five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle on the far side westward.
33 And he made the middle bar to pass through the boards from one end to the other.
34 He overlaid the boards with gold, made their rings of gold to be holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE
1. The Tabernacle Boards
a. The curtains would be hung over these boards.
b. Tenons are interlocking joints; the boards are dovetailed into each other.
c. This would be done skillfully by craftsmen specialising in woodcraft.
d. The wood chosen was acacia.
e. Silver sockets were used to join the boards together.
f. This was described in Exodus 26:15-25.
2. The Cross-bars for the Boards
a. The bars were also made of acacia wood.
b. The bars were overlaid with gold.
c. This was described in Exodus 26:26-30.
3. Great skills were needed
a. The carpenters
b. Those who worked with gold and silver.
c. Supervision of the work was, of course, necessary.
Bezalel and Aholiab would supervise and check all the work done.
经文：出埃及记 36：20－34
沉思
《出埃及记 36：20－34》
20 他用皂荚木做帐幕的竖板。
21 每块长十肘，宽一肘半，
22 每块有两榫相对。帐幕一切的板都是这样做。
23 帐幕的南面做板二十块，
24 在这二十块板底下又做四十个带卯的银座，两卯接这块板上的两榫，两卯接那块板上的两榫。
25 帐幕的第二面，就是北面，也做板二十块，
26 和带卯的银座四十个，这板底下有两卯，那板底下也有两卯。
27 帐幕的后面，就是西面，做板六块。
28 帐幕后面的拐角做板两块，
29 板的下半截是双的，上半截是整的，直到第一个环子，在帐幕的两个拐角上都是这样做。
30 有八块板和十六个带卯的银座，每块板底下有两卯。
31 他用皂荚木做闩，为帐幕这面的板做五闩，
32 为帐幕那面的板做五闩，又为帐幕后面的板做五闩，
33 使板腰间的中闩从这一头通到那一头。34 用金子将板包裹，又做板上的金环套闩，闩也用金子包裹。