Shevat 7 – Then he made the court…

February 4, 2025

11 – Shevat, 5785_11_Shevat

Tabernacle

Shevat 7, 5785; from sunset February 4, 2025, to sunset February 5, 2025

(The seventh day of the eleventh month)

This is the name “Mosheh” (מֺשֶׁה – Moses) as seen in the Dead Sea Scrolls, written over two thousand years ago.

In addition to our remembrance of Moses’ repetition of the Torah, today we’ll check in with the children of Israel while they are constructing everything needed to build the Tabernacle. They started gathering everything last fall during the Feast of Tabernacles – in fact, they had too much! They had to tell the people to stop bringing offerings. The Bible tells us that everything needed was ready by the first day of the first month in the springtime. They’ve been making good progress towards that goal – all of the major gold and bronze furnishings have been completed. Today we’re reading about the fine twisted linen, hooks, sockets, bands, and pillars that were made to form the court.

Then he made the court on the south side; the hangings of the court were of fine woven linen, one hundred cubits long. There were twenty pillars for them, with twenty bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.

On the north side the hangings were one hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars and their twenty bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.

And on the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits, with ten pillars and their ten sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.

For the east side the hangings were fifty cubits. The hangings of one side of the gate were fifteen cubits long, with their three pillars and their three sockets, and the same for the other side of the court gate; on this side and that were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets. All the hangings of the court all around were of fine woven linen.

The sockets for the pillars were bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver, and the overlay of their capitals was silver; and all the pillars of the court had bands of silver.

The screen for the gate of the court was woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine woven linen. The length was twenty cubits, and the height along its width was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

And there were four pillars with their four sockets of bronze; their hooks were silver, and the overlay of their capitals and their bands was silver.

All the pegs of the tabernacle, and of the court all around, were bronze. – Exodus 38:9-20

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