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Exodus 36 Bible study: More than enough
Exodus uses the Hebrew verb for "restrained" (kala') only once: when the people had to be held back from giving, because they had brought "much more than enough" (36:5-6). And the word for "the service of the sanctuary" (36:1) is the word Exodus used for Israel's "hard service" in Egypt (1:14).
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“They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make.””
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“In Exodus 36, it was the workers doing the building who told Moses the people had brought more than enough.”
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What's really going on
Told to stop giving
The gifts kept coming after the work had begun: "They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning" (36:3). The ones who spoke up were the builders. "All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did" (36:4), and they told Moses, "The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make" (36:5). So Moses gave a command, and it was proclaimed through the camp: "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary" (36:6). "So the people were restrained from bringing" (36:6), "For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much" (36:7). The Hebrew verb for "restrained" (kala') comes only this once in Exodus.
Where it leads to Jesus
To accomplish his work
Exodus 36:1leads toJohn 4:34
This chapter is about "all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has commanded" (36:1), and Exodus ends the building with "So Moses finished the work" (40:33). Jesus spoke of his own life as work given him to do: "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work" (John 4:34). Praying to the Father, he said, "I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do" (John 17:4). Jesus doesn't cite Exodus 36, so setting the two side by side is a reading: some hear in his words the work God gives, carried out to the end; others read them on their own.
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The Hebrew word behind it
דַּיdaisay DAI
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "sufficiency, enough". Strong's: "enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases". Genesis never uses it, and its first two uses in the Hebrew Bible are in this chapter: "The people have brought much more than enough" (36:5), and "the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work" (36:7). Leviticus uses it for what someone can afford: "If he can’t afford a lamb" (Leviticus 5:7), and for a mother after childbirth, "If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons" (Leviticus 12:8). When Jesus' parents brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (Luke 2:22), they came "to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, ‘A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons’" (Luke 2:24): the offering Leviticus 12:8 allows in place of a lamb. Malachi uses the word for the LORD's blessing: "pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for" (Malachi 3:10).
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Exodus 36 Bible study questions
- 1The people kept giving until they had to be told to stop (36:6). What would it take for you to give like that, and what holds you back?
- 2The same word Exodus used for Israel's "hard service" in Egypt (1:14) now names "the service of the sanctuary" (36:1). How is serving God different from the work that has worn you down?
- 3Most of this chapter is careful work done just as the LORD had said (36:1). Where does being faithful in ordinary, repeated tasks matter in your life right now?
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