translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EXO

label: NET study note

text: This chapter also will be almost identical to the instructions given earlier, with a few changes along the way.


text: The twelve names were those of Israel’s sons. The idea was not the remembrance of the twelve sons as such, but the twelve tribes that bore their names.


text: The last sections of the book bring several themes together to a full conclusion. Not only is it the completion of the tabernacle, it is the fulfillment of God’s plan revealed at the beginning of the book, i.e., to reside with his people.


text: The situation and wording in Exod 39:43 are reminiscent of Gen 1:28 and 31 , with the motifs of blessing people and inspecting what has been made.