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The Bible Story Vol 2_w.pdf - Herbert W. Armstrong

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But there were some who had put<br />

off giving t heir share, and who<br />

rushed their offerings in too late to<br />

be accepted.<br />

Bezaleel and Aholiab lost no<br />

time in teaching those who needed<br />

instructions and assigning craftsmen<br />

and laborers to their various<br />

tas ks. Soon everyone was busily<br />

an d happily working. Carpenters<br />

started hewing board s out of the<br />

acacia logs an d planks that had<br />

been brought in . Metal workers<br />

melted down or pound ed out the<br />

metals. Weavers and seamstresses<br />

wor ke d on cloth . Gem-cutters<br />

planned how to use the precious<br />

stones.<br />

Work on the tabernacle was<br />

something that couldn't be rushed .<br />

It required great care and skill , for<br />

everything that went into this project<br />

was to be mad e as close to perfection<br />

as hu man hands could make<br />

it. <strong>The</strong> men and women were very<br />

careful to perfo rm superior workmanship<br />

in making God's tabernacle<br />

and its furnishi ngs.<br />

Bezal eel a nd Ah oli ab did<br />

much of the work themselves ­<br />

especially on such objects as the<br />

chest that was to contain the two<br />

tables of sto ne on which the Ten<br />

Comma ndments are written, t he<br />

altar on which sacrifices were to be<br />

made an d the priests' gar ments.<br />

(Exodus 37, 38, 39.)<br />

E ven t hough t he wo r ke rs<br />

applied themselves ambitiously, it<br />

required about six month s to build<br />

Some of the mat erials given by the<br />

Israelites for the tab ernacle were from<br />

Egyptian army equipment washed ashore<br />

from the Red Sea.

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