Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Exodus, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
God’s Identity and Power
Redemption and Deliverance
The Covenant
Mediators and the Priesthood
Summary
Analysis
Bezalel, Oholiab, and other skilled and willing artisans gather the people’s freewill offerings; the people have brought so much that they must be ordered to stop. Then the artisans begin making the tabernacle, its curtains, its ram-skin and leather coverings, its wooden frames, pillars, and screen.
This chapter simply narrates the artisans’ work as they follow the instructions Moses brought from God for the tabernacle construction. The intricate details convey the belief that God shouldn’t be worshiped in a glib or improvised way (like cobbling together a golden calf), but according to his commands.
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