39:32–43  So all the work on the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. They had finished the labor on all the elements of the tabernacle. “The tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting” is, literally, “the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,” so the Hebrew does not equate them. The construct (“of”) is translated appositionally since, of course, it included the new tent of meeting. This may reflect the merging of the older tent of meeting tradition. (See the comments on 33:7–11.)

The list of the tabernacle’s components is succinct and mirrors the list of all that the Lord asked the whole community to bring and to do in 35:10–19 (see the comments on 31:1–11; 35:10–19). Now they had completed t…