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The People Offer Gifts
Exodus 35:20–29 — The People Offer Gifts. Each verse below carries the full apparatus: the Berean Standard Bible, the vocalized original (tap any word), and a parsed breakdown of every term transcribed from the interlinear. Synthesized commentary, canonical threads, and the reading of Christ gather at the end, over the whole unit.
20Then the whole congregation of Israel withdrew from the presence of Moses.
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kāl- ‘ă·ḏaṯ bə·nê- yiś·rā·’êl way·yê·ṣə·’ū mil·lip̄·nê mō·šeh
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And-they-went-out all the congregation of the sons of Israel from before the face of Moses.
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all the congregation of Israel departed from the presence of Moses—No exciting harangues were made, nor had the people Bibles at home in which they could compare the requirements of their leader and see if these things were so. But they had no doubt as to his bearing to them the will of God, and they were impressed with so strong a sense of its being their duty, that they made a spontaneous offer of the best and most valuable treasures they possessed.
they immediately went to their tents, and fetched what they had with them, or were willing to part with, and brought it directly as a freewill offering to the LordGill, with Aben Ezra, reads the going-out as orderly — "company after company" came to the tabernacle.
Without a willing mind, costly offerings would be abhorred; with it, the smallest will be accepted.Henry's note governs the whole paragraph 35:20–29.
The people went from Moses, i.e., from the place where they were assembled round Moses, away to their tents, and willingly offered the things required as a heave-offering for Jehovah; every one "whom his heart lifted up," i.e., who felt himself inclined and stirred up in his heart to do this.Keil reads the going-out as a dispersal to the tents to fetch the gifts.
An ideal picture of a community ready and eager to contribute liberally to the sanctuary and service of its God.Cambridge's heading for the whole section, 35:20–29.
21And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.
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kāl- ’îš ’ă·šer- lib·bōw nə·śā·’ōw wə·ḵōl ’ă·šer rū·ḥōw nā·ḏə·ḇāh ’ō·ṯōw way·yā·ḇō·’ū hê·ḇî·’ū ’eṯ- tə·rū·maṯ Yah·weh lim·le·ḵeṯ ’ō·hel mō·w·‘êḏ ū·lə·ḵāl- ‘ă·ḇō·ḏā·ṯōw haq·qō·ḏeš ū·lə·ḇiḡ·ḏê
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And-they-came every man whose heart lifted him, and all whose spirit made-him-willing, they-brought the contribution-of YHWH for the work-of the Tent-of Meeting, and for all its service, and for the garments-of holiness.
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Wherever the spirit is touched with the sweet influences of God’s love, and loves and gives back again, that spirit is buoyant, lifted, raised above the low, flat levels where selfishness feeds fat and then rots.Maclaren's whole sermon on this verse, "An Old Subscription List," is the keynote of the unit.
It was from a principle of love to God and his service; a desire of his presence with them by his ordinances, gratitude for the great things he had done for them, and faith in his promises of what he would do further.
Whose heart stirred him up , i.e. whose heart being desirous and ready to serve God, engaged his hand to offer what he had to his service.
One powerful element doubtless of this extraordinary open-hearted liberality was the remembrance of their recent transgression, which made them "zealous of good works"JFB reads the giving against the backdrop of the golden calf (ch. 32).
22So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
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kōl nə·ḏîḇ lêḇ hā·’ă·nā·šîm ‘al- han·nā·šîm way·yā·ḇō·’ū hê·ḇî·’ū ḥāḥ wā·ne·zem wə·ṭab·ba·‘aṯ wə·ḵū·māz kāl- zā·hāḇ kə·lî wə·ḵāl ’îš hê·nîp̄ zā·hāḇ ’ă·šer tə·nū·p̄aṯ Yah·weh
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And-they-came, the men over and above the women — all willing of heart — they-brought clasp and nose-ring and signet-ring and bead-necklace, every article-of gold; and every man who waved a wave-offering of gold to YHWH.
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literally, "the men over and above the women"; a phraseology which implies that the women acted a prominent part, presented their offerings first, and then were followed by as many of their male companions as were similarly disposed.
Though the generality of the people did then part with their earrings, yet there was a considerable number who did not, as being unsatisfied with that idolatrous design; and it may seem that the women would not part with theirs, being more fond of their ornaments than of their idols.Poole answers the objection that all the earrings had gone into the golden calf (32:3).
The last word of the four, kumâz, cannot possibly mean “tablets.” It comes from a root signifying “rounded,” and designates probably a bead necklace, such as was often worn by the Egyptians.
‘Wave’ and ‘wave-offering’ are used here, not in their proper sense (see on Exodus 29:24 ) of a ceremony implying that the object ‘waved’ is given ultimately to the priests, but in a weakened and later sense of present, presentation
It is most likely that all the articles mentioned in this verse were of gold. The indulgence of private luxury was thus given up for the honor of the Lord.Barnes catches the moral reversal: personal ornament is stripped off and consecrated.
it does not really differ from terumah, a lift of heave-offering, as every gift intended for the erection and maintenance of the sanctuary was called, inasmuch as the offerer lifted it off from his own property, to dedicate it to the LordKeil equates the wave-offering (tᵉnûphâh) and heave-offering (tᵉrûmâh): both name what is lifted off one's own goods for God.
23Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.
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wə·ḵāl ’îš ’ă·šer- nim·ṣā ’it·tōw tə·ḵê·leṯ wə·’ar·gā·mān wə·ṯō·w·la·‘aṯ šā·nî wə·šêš wə·‘iz·zîm ’ê·lim wə·‘ō·rōṯ mə·’ād·dā·mîm tə·ḥā·šîm wə·‘ō·rōṯ hê·ḇî·’ū
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And-every man with whom was found blue and purple and worm-of scarlet and white-linen and goat-hair, and ram-skins reddened and skins-of taḥash, they-brought them.
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And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet,.... Wool or yarn of either of the colours; unless it can be supposed there might be with some of them the ingredients with which colours were made, brought with them out of Egypt
Red skins of rams. —Rather, rams’ skins dyed red, as the same words are translated in Exodus 25:5 ; Exodus 35:7 .
Badger skins . Rather, "seal skins." See the comment on Exodus 25:5.The identity of the taḥash hide is contested across the tradition.
24And all who could present an offering of silver or bronze brought it as a contribution to the LORD. Also, everyone who had acacia wood for any part of the service brought it.
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kāl- mê·rîm tə·rū·maṯ ke·sep̄ ū·nə·ḥō·šeṯ hê·ḇî·’ū ’êṯ tə·rū·maṯ Yah·weh wə·ḵōl ’ă·šer nim·ṣā ’it·tōw šiṭ·ṭîm ‘ă·ṣê lə·ḵāl mə·le·ḵeṯ hā·‘ă·ḇō·ḏāh hê·ḇî·’ū
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Every-one lifting up a heave-offering-of silver and bronze brought the heave-offering-of YHWH; and every man with whom was found acacia wood for any work-of the service brought it.
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Silver had been enumerated among the offerings which would be accepted ( Exodus 25:3 ; Exodus 35:5 ), and it was therefore brought; but it is difficult to say what was done with it.Ellicott registers an unresolved difficulty about the silver freewill gifts.
The verb ‘offer’ is cognate: lit. lift or take up (see ibid. ). the service ] the business of constructing the sanctuary; so Exodus 36:1 ; Exodus 36:3 .
Every one that had any quantity of either of these, whose heart was inclined freely to part therewith, brought it as a freewill offering to the Lord
25Every skilled woman spun with her hands and brought what she had spun: blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen.
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wə·ḵāl ḥaḵ·maṯ- lêḇ ’iš·šāh ṭā·wū bə·yā·ḏe·hā way·yā·ḇî·’ū maṭ·weh ’eṯ- hat·tə·ḵê·leṯ wə·’eṯ- hā·’ar·gā·mān ’eṯ- tō·w·la·‘aṯ haš·šā·nî wə·’eṯ- haš·šêš
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And-every woman wise of heart with her hands spun, and they-brought what-was-spun — the blue and the purple, the worm-of scarlet and the white-linen.
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Spinning was probably a very general accomplishment of the Hebrew women. It was effected in early times by means of a wheel and spindle, with or without a distaff.
All the women who understood it (were wise-hearted, as in Exodus 28:3 ) spun with their hands, and presented what they spun, viz., the yarn required for the blue and red purple cloth, the crimson and the byssus; from which it is evident that the coloured cloths were dyed in the yarn or in the wool
26And all the skilled women whose hearts were stirred spun the goat hair.
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wə·ḵāl han·nā·šîm bə·ḥā·ḵə·māh ’ă·šer lib·bān ’ō·ṯā·nāh nā·śā ṭā·wū ’eṯ- hā·‘iz·zîm
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And-all the women whose heart lifted them in wisdom spun the goat-hair.
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All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom . This strong expression seems to imply that peculiar skill was required for spinning goats' hair.
In wisdom : this word seems better to agree with the following than with the foregoing word, they spun with wisdom, i.e. with skill and art.
It would seem to have been more difficult to produce a thread from goats’ hair than from flax. Only the most skilful undertook the more difficult task.
The women who spun the goats' hair were wise-hearted, because they did it heartily to the Lord.
27The leaders brought onyx stones and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,
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wə·han·nə·śi·’im hê·ḇî·’ū ’êṯ haš·šō·ham ’aḇ·nê wə·’êṯ ’aḇ·nê ham·mil·lu·’îm lā·’ê·p̄ō·wḏ wə·la·ḥō·šen
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And-the lifted-ones brought the onyx stones and the stones-of fillings for the ephod and for the breastpiece,
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The twelve stones required for the breastplate would naturally be contributed by the twelve chiefs of the tribes whose names they were to bear ( Exodus 28:21 ).
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 notGill weighs and largely rejects the rabbinic charge that the rulers were slow.
The rulers are, no doubt, the "elders" of Exodus 3:16 ; Exodus 4:29 ; Exodus 24:9 , etc. Moses had made them "rulers," or rather, "princes" (sarey), according to the advice of Jethro ( Exodus 18:25 ).
28as well as spices and olive oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.
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wə·’eṯ- hab·bō·śem wə·’eṯ- haš·šā·men lə·mā·’ō·wr ham·miš·ḥāh ū·lə·še·men has·sam·mîm wə·liq·ṭō·reṯ
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and the fragrance and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the incense of spices.
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Such excellent spices and precious oil, pure oil olive, as the common people had not, and which they brought out of Egypt
The precious stones Exodus 28:9 and spices were contributed by the rulers, who were more wealthy than the other Israelites.
Spice.-See Exodus 30:23-24 ; Exodus 30:34 .Ellicott points to the compounding recipe for the anointing oil and incense.
29So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.
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kāl- ’îš wə·’iš·šāh ḇə·nê- yiś·rā·’êl ’ă·šer lib·bām nā·ḏaḇ ’ō·ṯām lə·hā·ḇî nə·ḏā·ḇāh Yah·weh hê·ḇî·’ū lə·ḵāl ham·mə·lā·ḵāh ’ă·šer Yah·weh bə·yaḏ- mō·šeh ṣiw·wāh la·‘ă·śō·wṯ
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Every man and woman whose heart made-them-willing to bring for all the work that YHWH had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses — the sons of Israel brought a freewill-offering to YHWH.
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those who have such a willing heart and spirit, have it not by nature or of themselves, but from the efficacious grace of God, which makes them a willing people in the day of his power; and from the free Spirit of God, who works in them, both to will and to do of his good pleasureGill grounds the people's willingness in grace, echoing Psalm 110:3 and Philippians 2:13.
Whatever the Israelites offered was offered by them freely.
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The unit turns on two Hebrew clauses that the English smooths into devotion-language: the man whose heart lifted him (nə·śā·’ōw, H5375) and the one whose spirit made him willing (nā·ḏə·ḇāh, H5068). Alexander Maclaren builds his whole exposition on the first: "that spirit is buoyant, lifted, raised above the low, flat levels where selfishness feeds fat and then rots" — naming this passage "an old subscription list" in which the only acceptable giving is the kind "it would be pain to keep back." Matthew Poole reads the heart as the engine of the hand: it "being desirous and ready to serve God, engaged his hand to offer." Joseph Benson traces the willingness to its source — "a principle of love to God... and faith in his promises." Jamieson, Fausset & Brown add the shadow that makes the light brighter: the "remembrance of their recent transgression" with the golden calf (ch. 32) "made them zealous of good works." The gold that became an idol is now waved to the LORD — Albert Barnes sees the precise moral inversion: "The indulgence of private luxury was thus given up for the honor of the Lord." And the spontaneity is total: Maclaren presses that under the gospel this voluntary principle becomes the only acceptable kind — "There are no pressed men on board Christ's ship. None but volunteers make up His army."
The long catalogue refuses to rank its givers. Twice the formula falls — every man with whom was found (nim·ṣā, H4672, "was found with him") — measuring duty by possession alone. Maclaren draws the law out plainly: "capacity is the measure of duty... the engine must be worked up to the last ounce of pressure that it will stand." The same honorific covers them all: the gem-bringing rulers are "exalted ones" (nĕsi’im, H5387), and the goat-hair spinners are wise of heart (ḥaḵ·maṯ lêḇ, H2450 + H3820) — the very phrase used of Bezalel's Spirit-given skill (31:3). Matthew Henry presses the equality: "The women who spun the goats' hair were wise-hearted, because they did it heartily to the Lord... the labourer, mechanic, or servant... may be as wise, for his place, as the most useful minister." Keil & Delitzsch grounds the women's craft in the ancient world — the colored cloths "dyed in the yarn or in the wool" — while Ellicott notes goat-hair was harder than flax, so "only the most skilful undertook the more difficult task." The very ordering of the list preaches the equality: Maclaren observes that "The large subscriptions are at the bottom of the list, and the smaller ones are in the place of honour," and that "Wood is wanted for the Temple quite as much as gold and silver and precious stones." Even the translators' uncertainty is honest: the taḥash hide (v. 23) the Pulpit Commentary renders "seal skins," the lexicon "a species of antelope" — nobody knows the animal.
The paragraph closes where it opened, on the willing heart, and adds its theological frame. The people brought a freewill-offering (nə·ḏā·ḇāh, H5071) — Cambridge: "Whatever the Israelites offered was offered by them freely" — yet for "all the work that the LORD had commanded... by the hand of Moses" (bə·yaḏ mō·šeh). Geneva glosses the idiom: "Using Moses as a minister of it." Spontaneity and command are not at war: the gift is free, but the pattern is given. John Gill dissolves any boast — the willing heart is had "not by nature or of themselves, but from the efficacious grace of God, which makes them a willing people in the day of his power; and from the free Spirit of God, who works in them, both to will and to do." The free offering is itself God's gift back to Him.
Read under Sola Scriptura, this paragraph is the Bible's first portrait of joyful, abundant giving — and it is the mirror image of the golden calf. In chapter 32 the people tore off their gold for an idol of their own making; here they wave the same gold (H2091, zāhāb) to the God who made them. The diagnostic is never the size of the gift but the lift of the heart: nâsâʼ (lifted) and nâdab (willing) bracket the whole account (vv. 21, 29). And the one Hebrew word — chokmah, "wisdom" — is laid identically on the master-craftsman Bezalel (31:3) and on the woman spinning coarse goat-hair (v. 26), so that Scripture flatly denies any hierarchy of holy work. What the New Testament will universalize, this text shows in seed: "God loves a cheerful giver" (2 Cor. 9:7), and "it is God who works in you to will and to act" (Phil. 2:13) — the willing is itself grace, as Gill saw. The fallible synthesis here: the contrast with the calf is so exact (same gold, same act of removal, opposite object) that the editor takes it as deliberate authorial design, though the text does not name it.
The gold that built the calf now builds the house — the difference is not the gift but the lifted heart. (an editorial reading, not Scripture)
AI-generated connections. Each carries a verification badge with a recorded basis; contested links are flagged.
The rare ornament kūmāz (H3558) — "probably little golden balls strung together like beads" (Keil) — occurs in only two verses in the whole Hebrew Bible: here, where Israel freely gives it for the tabernacle, and Numbers 31:50, where the soldiers bring Midianite kūmāz as atonement-money after the war. Both passages also share ṭabbaʻath (signet-ring), kᵉlî (article), and zāhāb (gold). Because kūmāz is so rare, the Verifier rates this a genuine verbal tie: the same distinctive jewelry, both times surrendered to the LORD.
Exodus 35:22 · Numbers 31:50
basis: shared rare lexeme H3558 kûwmâz (bead-necklace), found in only 2 verses of the OT; plus H2885 ṭabbaʻath, H3627 kᵉlîy, H2091 zâhâb (Verifier-computed)
The offering-list of vv. 23–25 is the obedient echo of the original instructions to build (Exodus 25:4) and of their fulfilment in the ephod's making (Exodus 39:2). Four sacred materials cluster together in all three places — shêsh (fine linen, H8336, only 37 vv), ’argāmān (purple, H713, 38 vv), shānî (scarlet, H8144, 42 vv), and tôlaʻ (the crimson-worm, H8438, 43 vv) — each a genuinely uncommon term, and the Verifier rates the resulting four-lexeme overlap a confirmed verbal tie. The honest qualification: this is not a quotation but a repeated material-formula within one composition. The same stock list is recited by the lawgiver (command), the people (gift), and the artisans (fulfilment), so the rare-word overlap is real but functions as obedient repetition, not citation — the narrative showing the people supply exactly what was specified.
Exodus 35:23 · Exodus 25:4 · Exodus 39:2
basis: Verifier-confirmed: four rare shared lexemes H8336 shêsh (37 vv), H713 ʼargâmân (38 vv), H8144 shânîy (42 vv), H8438 tôwlâʻ (43 vv) across command (25:4), gift (35:23), fulfilment (39:2). Editorial caveat: the link is a repeated material-formula within Exodus, not a citation — verbal at the lexeme level, structural in function
This whole paragraph is the narrated obedience to a single earlier command. At Sinai the LORD told Moses to take a contribution (tᵉrûwmâh, H8641) "from every man whose heart prompts him" — nâdab, H5068 (Exodus 25:2). Verses 21 and 29 here discharge that order word for word: the same rare verb of self-moved giving (nâdab, found in only 15 verses of the OT), the same heave-offering (tᵉrûwmâh), the same willing heart (lêb). Keil ties the wave-offering back to "heaving and the heave-offering, see at Exodus 25:2." The Verifier confirms the lexeme-cluster, so command and fulfilment are bound by shared vocabulary; tiered structural because it is the same author recapitulating his own instruction, not a quotation.
Exodus 35:21 · Exodus 35:29 · Exodus 25:2
basis: Verifier-computed shared lexemes H5068 nâdab (rare, 15 vv) + H8641 tᵉrûwmâh (63 vv) + H3820 lêb, binding the command (25:2) to its fulfilment (35:21, 29); recapitulation of a command within one book, not a citation
The phrase ḥaḵ·maṯ lêḇ / chokmah ("wise of heart," H2450 + H3820) ties the spinning women of vv. 25–26 to the master-artisans Bezalel and Oholiab, who are "filled with wisdom of heart" by the Spirit of God (Exodus 28:3; 31:3). The shared châkâm + lêb cluster (Verifier-confirmed) marks technical skill as a spiritual endowment — and lays the same honorific on coarse goat-hair as on the high-priestly vestments. Henry: the spinners "were wise-hearted, because they did it heartily to the Lord."
Exodus 35:25 · Exodus 35:26 · Exodus 28:3
basis: shared lexemes H2450 châkâm + H3820 lêb ("wise-hearted") linking the spinners to Bezalel's Spirit-given craft (28:3; 31:3); a shared idiom/motif, not a quotation (Verifier-computed)
The unit's signature verb nâdab ("to impel oneself, offer freely," H5068, freq. 15 vv) reappears at the other great voluntary building-campaign of the OT: David and the leaders giving willingly for the temple (1 Chronicles 29:9), where "the people rejoiced... because with a perfect heart (lêb) they offered willingly (nâdab) to the LORD." Both passages pair nâdab with lêb. The Chronicler consciously frames David's temple-offering on the model of Moses' tabernacle-offering; the shared, relatively uncommon root makes the echo deliberate. Structural/thematic, since no citation is claimed.
Exodus 35:21 · Exodus 35:29 · 1 Chronicles 29:9
basis: shared lexemes H5068 nâdab (freewill-giving, 15 vv) + H3820 lêb, linking the tabernacle-offering to David's temple-offering (1 Chr 29:9); a sanctuary-building motif, not a quotation (Verifier-computed)
Paul's charter of Christian generosity — "each one as he has decided in his heart... for God loves a cheerful giver" (2 Corinthians 9:7) — is the New Testament's fullest commentary on this scene, and Maclaren explicitly reads Exodus 35 as its Old-Covenant seed: voluntary giving that "fills the whole sphere of Christianity." But because this is a Greek↔Hebrew link, it cannot rest on shared Strong's numbers — the Verifier finds no shared original-language lexeme. The connection is real but must be argued thematically, not asserted as verbal, so it is flagged.
Exodus 35:29 · 2 Corinthians 9:7
basis: cross-Testament (Greek↔Hebrew): no shared original-language lexeme; the willing-cheerful-giving link is thematic and editorial, not a verbal or citation tie (Verifier returned no shared lexeme) — argued, not asserted
AI-generated reading; weigh it against the text.
The whole unit makes acceptable offering a matter of the lifted, willing heart (nâsâʼ, nâdab) rather than constraint. The NT applies this language of voluntary self-giving supremely to Christ, who "loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God" (Eph. 5:2) — note the very fragrance-and-offering pairing of v. 28. Where Israel's freewill gifts built a tent for God to dwell among them, Christ offers Himself willingly so that God might dwell in His people. Gill's reading of v. 29 — the willing heart is the gift of "the free Spirit of God, who works in them, both to will and to do" — points the same direction.
Exodus 35:21 · Exodus 35:29
The tabernacle is built by people God has filled with wisdom of heart (v. 25–26; cf. 31:3, the Spirit of God) and who give from willing hearts. The NT takes up exactly this figure: the church is "God's building" (1 Cor. 3:9), "a holy temple in the Lord... built together for a dwelling place for God by the Spirit" (Eph. 2:21–22), with every member's gift needed. Maclaren draws the line himself: "there is room for all sorts of work in Christ's great house, where there are not only 'vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth,'" and "'The more feeble are necessary.'" The voluntary, Spirit-enabled, all-ranks-equal building of the dwelling-place is the type; the church as Spirit-built temple is the antitype. This is a widely-held reading; the editor's only added claim is that the equality is theological, not incidental.
Exodus 35:25 · Exodus 35:26
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Named voices, quoted verbatim from public-domain works:
This is a narrative material-list, so several gifts rest on uncertain identifications the tradition does not settle: ḥāḥ (v. 22, "brooch"? "clasp"? "nose-ring"?), kūmāz (v. 22, "necklace" / "bead-string" — a word found in only two OT verses), and especially taḥash (v. 23), rendered variously "badgers' skins," "seal skins" (Pulpit), or "fine leather," with the lexicon guessing an antelope. These divergence-notes report the doubt rather than resolving it. The dominant printed voice for this paragraph is Matthew Henry's single Concise note on 35:20–29, which biblehub repeats under every verse; it is cited once (v. 20/26) and not re-quoted. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown likewise carries its verse-22 note forward onto vv. 23–29 in the source; that material is therefore quoted only at its proper verse (22). On the silver of v. 24, Ellicott and the Pulpit Commentary both flag a genuine unresolved difficulty (its fate is not accounted for in 38:24–29) — preserved here rather than smoothed over. The 2 Corinthians 9:7 thread is deliberately flagged because, as a Greek↔Hebrew link, it can rest on no shared Strong's lexeme; its connection is thematic and editorial. Two intra-Exodus threads carry rare-lexeme overlaps the Verifier rates "verbal": the color-cluster (25:4 / 35:23 / 39:2) and the willing-heart command (25:2 / 35:21, 29). Both are honestly labeled as repeated formula or recapitulation within a single composition, not as one text quoting another — verbal at the lexeme level, structural in function. No Joshua 1:5 / Hebrews 13:5 thread applies to this Exodus unit.
✦ = human, public-domain source, quoted and named. ⚙ = machine synthesis, to be verified. Flagged cross-references are left visible on purpose — the verifier working in the open. “Search the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11)