When they completed making everything to construct the Tabernacle, it tells us Moses set it up. It reads as if Moses did this by himself, but I’m thinking that the passage means Moses lead this task with the help of the Levites who were instructed by God to set up and take down the tent and courtyard.
When one reads the book of Exodus it seems as if everything happens day after day so if there wasn’t any references to time, it would take at most a year or so. But, remember that the book of Exodus starts with the birth of Moses and brings us at least 81 years later since Moses was called by God to lead Israel out of Egypt when he was 80 years old. At the completion of the Tabernacle Israel has been out of Egypt exactly 1 year. Imagine yourself living in tents in the desert for a year, how long would it seem to you then? Reading about what the exodus seems like it was quick, but I think if I lived it, it would seem like forever. And for all but two of the adults in Israel their life in the desert will be the rest of their fleshly life.
The glory of God filling the Tabernacle must have been an awesome sight, of course maybe they were used to it by this time since the cloud had been with them for a year at this point.
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