Esodo 35:27

27 E i principali del popolo portarono pietre onichine, e pietre da legare, per l’Efod, e per lo Pettorale;

Esodo 35:27 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 35:27

And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set,
&c.] Or "stones of fillings" ^F4, to be set in ouches, and fill them up, as stones set in rings do:

for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
the onyx stones were for the shoulder pieces of the ephod; and the other stones were for the breastplate of judgment, and both to be borne by the high priest, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord, whose names were engraven on these stones: the rulers are mentioned last, as bringing their offerings: the reason of which may not be, because they were backward to it, for they might offer earlier, though recorded last; or if they offered last, it might be because they brought things that others could not; namely, the precious stones here mentioned, and other things in the next verse, the common people had not; though some of the Jewish writers tax them with dilatoriness, and observe a letter wanting in the word for "rulers", it generally has; omitted to denote, as they think, that they were slow and backward in offering; so Jarchi notes from R. Nathan.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (Myalmh ynba) "lapides plenitudinum", Pagninus, Montanus; "repletionum", Vatablus; "impletionum", Drusius.

Esodo 35:27 In-Context

25 E tutte le donne industriose filarono con le lor mani, e portarono il filato del violato, e della porpora, e dello scarlatto, e del fin lino.

26 Tutte le donne ancora, il cui cuore le sospinse ad adoperarsi con industria, filarono il pel di capra.

27 E i principali del popolo portarono pietre onichine, e pietre da legare, per l’Efod, e per lo Pettorale;

28 e aromati, e olio, per la lumiera, e per l’olio dell’Unzione, e per lo profumo degli aromati.

29 Così tutti coloro d’infra i figliuoli d’Israele, così uomini come donne, il cui cuore li mosse volenterosamente a portar ciò che faceva bisogno per tutto il lavorio, che il Signore avea comandato per Mosè che si facesse, portarono offerte volontarie al Signore.