“These are the accountings of the Mishkan the Mishkan of Testimony that were counted by Moshe the work of the Leviim under Isamar the son of Aharon…. And Betzalel ben Uri … did everything that Hashem commanded Moshe” (Shemos 38:21–22).
The word “accountings” is usually understood to refer to the volume of donations and their uses. But this interpretation raises difficulties. If this was an accounting then it is far from complete. The Torah speaks only about the amount of gold and copper that received and with regard to the silver it counts only the half-shekels…. The amount of other materials that was received is not mentioned.
Rather the “accountings of the Mishkan” are all the things that the concept of the Mishkan brings to mind. They are all the things that belong to the Mishkan and comprise its essence.
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