Êxodo 24:4

4 Então Moisés escreveu todas as palavras do Senhor e, tendo-se levantado de manhã cedo, edificou um altar ao pé do monte, e doze colunas, segundo as doze tribos de Israel,

Êxodo 24:4 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 24:4

And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord
Jarchi says, all from the creation, to the giving of the law, and the commands at Marah; but though these were written by him, yet not at this time; but as Aben Ezra more truly observes, what are mentioned in this "parashah", or section, or what is contained in the two preceding chapters, he not only related to them from his memory, but he wrote them in a book, which is after mentioned, that they might be seen and read hereafter; for these were not the ten commands, they were written as well as spoken by the Lord himself, but the judicial laws before mentioned:

and rose up early in the morning:
not on the fifth of Sivan, as Jarchi, the day before the giving of the law, but on the eighth of that month, two days after it:

and built an altar under the hill:
under Mount Sinai, about the place where the bounds were set, beyond which the people were not to go:

and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel:
to answer to them, and which were to represent them, as seems by the following account; these probably were made of marble stone, of which Mount Sinai consisted, and of which there was plenty thereabout.

Êxodo 24:4 In-Context

2 Só Moisés se chegará ao Senhor; os, outros não se chegarão; nem o povo subirá com ele.

3 Veio, pois, Moisés e relatou ao povo todas as palavras do Senhor e todos os estatutos; então todo o povo respondeu a uma voz: Tudo o que o Senhor tem falado faremos.

4 Então Moisés escreveu todas as palavras do Senhor e, tendo-se levantado de manhã cedo, edificou um altar ao pé do monte, e doze colunas, segundo as doze tribos de Israel,

5 e enviou certos mancebos dos filhos de Israel, os quais ofereceram holocaustos, e sacrificaram ao Senhor sacrifícios pacíficos, de bois.

6 E Moisés tomou a metade do sangue, e a pôs em bacias; e a outra metade do sangue espargiu sobre o altar.