Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

learning of the Egyptians; he had a knowledge of
God, and God's purposes had been revealed to him
in visions; but he did not know how to engrave and
embroider.
Israel had been held all their days in the
bondage of Egypt, and although there were
ingenious men among them, they had not been
instructed in the curious arts which were called for
in the building of the tabernacle. They knew how
to make bricks, but they did not understand how to
work in gold and silver. How was the work to be
done? Who was sufficient for these things? These
were questions that troubled the mind of Moses.
Then God himself explained how the work was
to be accomplished. He signified by name the
persons he desired to do a certain work. Bezaleel
was to be the architect. This man belonged to the
tribe of Judah,--a tribe that God delighted to honor.
"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I
have called by name Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled
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