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We then read: \u201cSo all the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses \u2026 So Moses blessed them\u201d (Ex. 39: 32, 43).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The passage sounds simple enough, but to the practised ear it recalls another biblical text, from the end of the creation narrative in Genesis: \u201cThe heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. On the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done\u201d (Gen. 2: 1-3).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three key words appear in both passages: \u201cwork,\u201d \u201ccompleted\u201d and \u201cblessed.\u201d These verbal echoes are not accidental. They are how the Torah signals intertextuality, that is, hinting that one law or story is to be read in the context of another. In this case the Torah is emphasizing that Exodus ends as Genesis began, with a work of creation. Note the difference as well as the similarity. Genesis began with an act of Divine creation. Exodus ends with an act of human creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The closer we examine the two texts, the more we see how intricately the parallel has been constructed. The creation account in Genesis is tightly organised around a series of sevens. There are seven days of creation. The word \u201cgood\u201d appears seven times, the word \u201cGod\u201d thirty-five times, and the word \u201cearth\u201d twenty-one times. The opening verse of Genesis contains seven words, the second fourteen, and the three concluding verses 35 words. The complete text is 469 (7\u00d767) words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The account of the construction of the Tabernacle is similarly built around the number seven. The word \u201cheart\u201d appears seven times in Exodus 35: 5-29, as Moses specifies the materials to be used in the construction, and seven times again in 35: 34 \u2013 36: 8, the description of how the craftsmen Bezalel and Oholiav were to carry out the work. The word terumah, \u201ccontribution\u201d appears seven times in this section. In chapter 39, describing the making of the priestly vestments, the phrase \u201cas God commanded Moses\u201d occurs seven times. It occurs again seven times in chapter 40.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A remarkable parallel is being drawn between God\u2019s creation of the universe and the Israelites\u2019 creation of the Sanctuary. We now understand what the Sanctuary represented. It was a micro-cosmos, a universe in miniature, constructed with the same precision and \u201cwisdom\u201d as the universe itself, a place of order as against the formlessness of the wilderness and the ever-threatening chaos of the human heart. 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