In Exodus chapters 25-31, the Lord gives His instructions for the construction of the sanctuary and the priestly garments. Then in chapters 35-39 Bezalel and Oholiab are tasked by Moses to complete these constructions.
For five chapters God gave explicit instructions, here is a small excerpt:
Exodus 25:23-26
23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits [y]long and one cubit [z]wide and one and a half cubits [aa]high. 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it. 25 You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it. 26 You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.
Bezalel and Oholiab worked on this construction from Exodus 35 through Exodus 39. Then at the end of chapter 39 in verse 43 we see the result:
43 And Moses [ak]examined all the work and behold, they had done it; just as the Lord had commanded, this they had done. So Moses blessed them.
Moses blessed them.
What they had done pleased the Lord. They had been given a task which they completed to the best of their abilities, abilities given to them by God. We can all please the Lord in this way, we can work to the best of our abilities, this often takes effort and care, we can see this well in the example of Bezalel and Oholiab.
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