The Faithful Man Abounds in Blessings in the Tabernacle Accounts

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 414:3

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(Exodus 38:21-28) "These are the accounts of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of the Testimony." This is what Scripture says "A man of faithfulness abounds in blessings" (Proverbs 28:20). You find that everyone who is faithful, the Holy One, blessed be He, brings blessings through his hand; and whoever is not faithful - (the same verse) "but one who hastens to be rich shall not go unpunished."

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