Context: Most of today's reading consists of work details related to the tabernacle and the priestly garments.
Today's Devotion Ex 40:33-36
33 Then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. And so Moses finished the work. 34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
36 In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; 37 but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted. 38 So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel during all their travels. (NIV)
Taken from www.biblegateway.com
What emotions do you think the Israelites, and especially Moses, had as they finished erecting the tabernacle? I imagine there was pride in the workmanship and a sense of terror that they forgot something! At this point in history God wasn't too forgiving of disobedience -- with one lightning bolt they could all be toast (literally...).
I always wondered how Moses was able to keep track of all the instructions. We don't have any evidence that he took notes on God's directions...God probably embedded them in Moses' brain.
Imagine the relief they felt when God accepted their work and moved in!
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