12 myths
The camp said Moses had given the Sanctuary to his own blood. He opened the words from the mountain and showed them Bezalel's name already written.
Angels cut Abraham's tamarisk and threw it into the Sea of Reeds. Israel pulled the wood out and ran it through the Mishkan as the middle bar.
The gold was donated and the craftsmen were ready. Moses stopped the entire assembly first to teach them one rule that overrode everything else.
Rest on the seventh day is a sign between God and Israel. A man who picks up a tool in the street tears the sign, so the Torah puts him to death.
Three hundred priests carried one curtain to be washed. A handbreadth thick, woven on seventy-two strands, the parokhet guarded the holiest room.
The plating was pure gold. Underneath, Bezalel's boards came from a tree whose name matched the place where Israel would later fall to Moabite women.
Weeks after the calf, so much gold came in that Bezalel reported more than the work could use. Moses raised both hands and shouted for the giving to stop.
Gold keeps coming until Bezalel and Aholiab tell Moses to stop. The desert Mishkan rises from too much love, not too little.
Half-built boards at dusk on the sixth day. Gold rings still waiting for their poles. One man reached for a mallet. Another man set it down.
The goats stood still while the women pulled hair from their backs. The boards waited. One bar still had to take the corner without a joint.
Moses told him to raise the Tent. Bezalel cut acacia for the chest instead, and the empty courtyard waited while gold went on first.
She raked the coals into a pile and set the pot where the heat would hold. Fire may be lit on Friday, not on the Sabbath. She lit the lamp before dark.
