so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing,
I. The workmen set in without delay. Then they wrought, Exo 36:1. When God had qualified them for the work, then they applied themselves to it. Note, The talents we are entrusted with must not be laid up, but laid out; not hid in a napkin, but traded with. What have we all our gifts for, but to do good with them? They began when Moses called them, Exo 36:2.
Commenting on Exodus 36:1-7
And all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary,.... The ingenious artificers who were employed, some in one thing, and some in another, either on the tabernacle itself, or the vessels of it, and things appertaining to it: came every man from his work which they made; left off their work by mutual consent and agreement, and came in a body to Moses.
Exo 36:4-6 Then the wise workmen came, every one from his work that they were making, and said to Moses, “Much make the people to bring, more than suffices for the labour (the finishing, as in Exo 27:19) of the work,” i.e., they are bringing more than will be wanted for carrying out the work (the מן in מדּי is comparative); whereupon Moses let the...
Commenting on Exodus 36:4-6