Finally, the job was done. The Jewish people’s building of the Mishkan—the Sanctuary—under Moses’s guidance is completed in this week’s parsha Pikudei. It has taken no less than 13 chapters of the Book of Exodus to recount it. Consider that the entire story of Creation took up only one chapter in Genesis. The Revelation at Sinai and the giving of the Ten Commandments and the Torah took all of three chapters. It appears that it was a lot easier for God to create the world than for humans to make a physical home worthy of God’s presence.
The people show Moses all they have done and he is very pleased that everything was performed according to the precise instructions given to him by God. Then he blesses the people.
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