God left nothing to human imagination or to chance. He knew what He wanted and He carefully
dictated every minute detail with great particularity. All the frills and fringes of the tabernacle
and its adornment had been given; and so now He turns to the construction of
the Altar within it.
Once again,
the choice of wood was acacia, five cubits long, and five cubits wide,
foursquare and its height three cubits. It was to have horns at the four quarters,
and each the same dimensions and overlaid with bronze. There were to be pans to
receive the ashes, and also shovels, and basins, and flesh hooks, and fire pans
all made of bronze.
There was
to be a grate under the altar made of a mesh of bronze, with bronze rings for
the four corners of the mess. There were
to be staves to the altar to be inserted into the rings in order that the altar
may be lifted up as needs be. The
instructions to Moses were that the Altar was to be hollow with boards, as the
Lord had shown him while he was upon the mount.
So the
inference is, Moses was not cooling his heals on the mountain. He was in
school. If he could not read and write
before, he certainly had plenty of time to learn; and if he had no
architectural, carpentry or wood working skills, he had plenty of opportunity
to learn a new trade. More
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