Building Yahweh’s Dwelling Place: Willing Hearts · Exodus 35 is remarkable for the dramatic reversal and transformation after a word of forgiveness from the Lord. The people prepared to build the tabernacle with full and willing hearts. The structure of the chapter illustrates the reversal by forming a mirror image of Exodus 31 (the last chapter before the golden-calf crisis), presenting similar material in reverse order. The last subject of Exodus 31 was the Sabbath, and the Sabbath command is now the first word after the golden calf crisis (35:1–3). The middle portions of both Exodus 31 and 35 list the components of the tabernacle to be built (31:7–11; 35:10–19). The first subject in Exodus 31 was Bezalel, “filled with the Spirit of God,” which is the conclusion to Exodus 35 (vv. 30–35).…