xxxiii. 36), a desert tract between the Dead Sea and the

Gulf of Akaba, now _the Arabah_.

69 – See note 68.

70 – “If I were to make a model of the end of the world, it would be from the valley of the convent of Mount Sinai.” Quoted in Stanley, _S. and P._ 43, n.

71 – Stanley, _S. and P._ 14; _Lectures_, p. 140.

72 – Probably, if it was a laminated figure, he destroyed the wooden portion of it with fire, reduced the gold to dust, and then strewed it upon the water. Kurtz, III. 162.

73 – See the LXX. Version of Exod. xxxiv. 30–35, and Alford’s and Wordsworth’s Notes on 2 Cor. iii. 13.

74 – The ordinary cubit was = 18¼ English inches; there was a shorter one = 15 inches; the Babylonian cubit was = 21 inches.

75 – It seems probable that the Tabernacle did not stand in the centre of the area, but 20 cubits from N., S., and W., so that there was a square of 50 cubits in front, where the sacrifices were offered, and the worshippers assembled.

76 – The position of the altar of Burnt-offering was very striking. It was the first object that confronted the worshipper on his entrance. The High-priest could not go into the sanctuary to burn incense before the Lord without taking live coals from this altar, nor could he enter and perform his holy functions without being himself sprinkled with the blood of the victims slain thereon. See Fairbairn’s _Typology_, II. 282.

77 – Seals were numerous on the shores of the Sinaitic peninsula. Pliny mentions the use of the skins of seals as a covering for tents, and as a protection from lightning. The exact meaning, however, of the Hebrew word _tachash_ is very uncertain. See Smith’s _Bib. Dict._ III. 21; article _Badger_.

78 – Comp. Matt. xii. 4; Mark ii. 26; Heb. ix. 2; and, for the importance of the Shewbread, the words of Abijah (2 Chron.