“Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.”
Which the Lord gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the Lord, in the Desert of Sinai. The closing verse grounds all the offering regulations in the Sinai revelation. The offerings are not human religious inventions but divine commands given on Mount Sinai. The Desert of Sinai setting is the reminder that these regulations were given to a community on the move, living between liberation and the promised land — the same community for which the tabernacle was built and the priesthood was established. The offering system is the liturgical structure of the wilderness community, the God-given means by which a people between Egypt and Canaan could maintain covenant relationship with their God.
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