We've been reading this week in Exodus, where God has given Moses, Joshua and the 70 elders directions for making the temple. These passages always both excite and frustrate me. It's exciting because I realize something new every time I read them. It's frustrating because I WANT PICTURES!
I have a tendancy to start mentally chasing rabbits while Bobby reads, and some mornings he can tell that my mind is a million miles away when he finishes. I shocked him the other day by not only answering his questions, but drawing an example on the napkin of what I thought the candelabra might look like. I WAS daydreaming, but it was possible designs of what he was reading. :)
And (in addition to the realization there were 70 people on the mountain with Joshua and Moses), I never realized God gave DESIGNS (aka PICTURES) to them while he was giving them instructions. We have our first Biblical recording of a design/trade school. How awesome is that?
Which leads me to today's reading about the clothes for the high priest. (Exodus 28) And I have the following questions for you:
1. The high priest's onyx engraved shoulder pads...do you think they hung off the shoulder like Napoleon's or were they tiny strips
like the shoulder pins our military people use?
I have a tendancy to start mentally chasing rabbits while Bobby reads, and some mornings he can tell that my mind is a million miles away when he finishes. I shocked him the other day by not only answering his questions, but drawing an example on the napkin of what I thought the candelabra might look like. I WAS daydreaming, but it was possible designs of what he was reading. :)
And (in addition to the realization there were 70 people on the mountain with Joshua and Moses), I never realized God gave DESIGNS (aka PICTURES) to them while he was giving them instructions. We have our first Biblical recording of a design/trade school. How awesome is that?
Which leads me to today's reading about the clothes for the high priest. (Exodus 28) And I have the following questions for you:
like the shoulder pins our military people use?
2. The Urim and the Thummim (the two dice?)...where did they go inside the breastplate? Was there a special pouch made on the outside, on the inside, or was the breastplate so thick (because it had to hold the 12 jewels with gold casings) that the U&T could bounce around inside it?
3. The rings that held the breastplate against the ephod...were they ropes like the cadets in the above picture are wearing, or rings like we'd have on our keychains?
4. The bells attached to the bottom of the high priest's robe...which do you think they were?
I can see either one being sewn on, but it also makes me wonder if they didn't have a bell that was more jewelry-like.
5. The embroidery work - beside each bell was an emroidered pomegranate using the colors of blue, silver, and scarlet (on a blue background). I'm thinking the blue embroidery color had to be a different shade of blue, but I'm also wondering was this variegated thread (where the colors run one into the other), or was each part of the fruit done in a different color? Did they show an open pomegranate, or just a whole one?
6. Linen breeches from the waist to the thigh - boxers? And for this had to be spelled out in such detail, what did the men wear before that? (and I've always thought it cool that God required the altar to be low to the ground to protect the decency of the priest, and now even requires them to wear extra clothes to proect their purity.)
7. Hats - We have a turban with a gold enscribed plate, sashes, and caps (or bonnets, as the KJV reads). Do you think the caps of the regular priests resembled the high priest turban (minus the gold enscription), or was it more like Seiks or Arabs wear?
And now I'm wanting to try and make a bell that's small enough to be sewn on clothes and yet still look majestic, as well as an almond branch with blossoms candelabra. Unfortunately, I have way too many other projects to be tackling at the moment.
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