
Chapter 39
Making the priestly garments. Again, these are not the instructions on how to make it, but a recounting of the actual work being carried out. One might unravel some of the instructions by comparing them to the work accomplished. Maybe.
This verse:
11 and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; [Exo 39:11 ESV]
Which three tribes were represented by these? These seem to me to be the most precious stones used.
Doesn't really say here...nor in 28:18 where the instructions are given. I doubt that this is the birth order...that method gives Judah, Zebulon, and Issachar. So probably not this. Would make a good study. I'm sure someone has deciphered it.
All the work of the tabernacle finished and presented to Moses. This is the concluding verse:
43 And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, so had they done it. Then Moses blessed them. [Exo 39:43 ESV]
So all the parts and pieces of the Tabernacle are finished.