Here we go again. For weeks now, we've been reading about the building of the tabernacle in the desert, the singular shrine to the one God. We've heard commandments for the manufacture of every piece of cloth, every golden joint and ladle, every bit of incense, every gem on the high priest's uniform. Now, in this week's reading, we are informed that the Israelites have carried out this project to the last letter, that they have donated to the effort their twenty-nine talents of gold, their hundred talents of silver, and countless other precious things—again in great detail.
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