I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Exodus 39-40.

I struggle each year to read in detail this description of the making of priestly garments and the dedication of the Tabernacle.  I am really tempted to skim over it because I generally don’t find much to take out of it.  Today was no exception.  One thing that struck me was that the writer found it important to describe how Bezalel made the gold “thread” for the ephod.  I am unsure why this detail was considered important enough to record.  It does not seem any more important than what dies were used to get the colors for the other threads.  Unless perhaps when Moses described the plan for the ephod which God had given him, other craftsmen had said that gold thread was impossible.  The most important part of this passage is that once the Tabernacle was completed and dedicated, the Israelites were ready to set out from Mt Sinai.