Today's reading in Exodus 35-38 begins with a call for workers. Workers are needed for many types of skilled labor in constructing the Tabernacle, its furnishings, and the clothes for the priests. Each of the calls for workers contained the wording, "all who were willing". I wonder if there were actually some with the required skills who were unwilling to serve.
The size and weight of this project is overwhelming! Especially when you consider that it must be taken apart, carried, and then re-assembled every time the Israelites moved. The courtyard of the Tabernacle was 150 feet long and 75 feet wide. To put it into perspective, since it is almost Super Bowl, 150 feet long is half the length of a football field. But the more impressive numbers to me are the weight of the metals used in the project. This is not the weight of the wood or fabrics, only the metals: Gold -- over one ton; silver -- 3 3/4 tons; and bronze -- 2 1/2 tons. All to be carried around in hot sand. It could not have been easy.
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