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Exodus 39:32
So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the completion of the tabernacle construction immediately after detailing the artisans' work and just before presenting the finished structure to Moses.
The words — The Hebrew verb וַתֵּכֶל (va.ttekhel, "it was finished") and the phrase כָּל־עבודת (kol-'avodat, "all the work") mark the definitive end of the building project.
The thread — This pattern of exact compliance appears again in Exodus 39:42, echoes the mountain pattern command in Exodus 25:40, and parallels the obedience theme in Matthew 28:20.
Why it lands — The text demands precise adherence to divine instruction rather than creative interpretation, requiring the reader to recognize completion as obedience to a specific command.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.
Cross-references
- Exodus 39:42 The Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Exodus 25:40 See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- Matthew 28:20 and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Exodus 25:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Exodus 35:1 Then Moses assembled the whole congregation of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:
- Exodus 39:33 Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases;
- Exodus 40:32 They washed whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 3:25 The duties of the Gershonites at the Tent of Meeting were the tabernacle and tent, its covering, the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 3:31 Their duties were the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used with them, and the curtain—all the service for these items.