Exodus 35:1

Exodus 35:1. And Moses gathered, &c.— The narrative, having been interrupted by the affair of the calf, is here resumed; so that, from the 32nd to the present chapter, the whole may be considered as a digression, and read as in a parenthesis. We need not, I judge, give ourselves or our reader the trouble of referring to the former chapters, wherein the several particulars mentioned in this and the following chapters are explained. We need not be surprised at this repetition, since it is known to have been the usual method with the writers of those times: Homer frequently uses it; and it is the taste of the Orientals to this day.