See that you make them after the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain.Coming from an engineering education, albeit not practicing, this just amazes me. A lot of engineering is diagrams, drawings, and models. To think that God Himself made some kind of "blueprint" for Moses to at least see, and possibly take with him, is humbling to think about.
I have a fair mind for picturing something that's described (not wonderful, but normally enough to get by in tasks), but I get lost in the descriptions given here of the Sanctuary's elements. I wonder if God placed images of the finished product into Moses' mind directly like some type of vision, or if He actually made more conventional plans for him to take back down to the craftsmen. These have to be made perfectly, without flaw or error, so God had to ensure somehow that the people making them would know what they were doing, and not just stumbling along to Moses' "second-hand" description. God knew this had to be done right, and he obviously took the time to show Moses how they should be done. We still have at least a part of that description thousands of years later.
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