He said: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded to be done.

And Moses said to the assembly, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded to be done.

and Moses saith unto the company, 'This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded to do.'

And Moses said to the people, This is what the Lord has given orders to be done.

he said: "This is the word that the Lord has ordered to be done."

Tunc dixit Moses ad congregaionem, Hoc est verbum quod praecepit Jehova facere.

And Moses said unto the congregation,.... Having convened them, he opened to them the reason of their being called together, which was not done of himself, but by divine direction:
this is the thing which the Lord commanded to be done; namely, what follows, concerning the consecration of Aaron and his sons to be priests, and the investiture of them with that office, attended with various rites and ceremonies to be performed, of which they were to be witnesses.

When the congregation was assembled, Moses said, "This is the word which Jehovah commanded you to do." His meaning was, the substance or essential part of the instructions in Exodus 28:1 and 29:1-37, which he had published to the assembled congregation before the commencement of the act of consecration, and which are not repeated here as being already known from those chapters. The congregation had been summoned to perform this act, because Aaron and his sons were to be consecrated as priests for them, as standing mediators between them and the Lord.