The Israelites build the tabernacle and all the furniture and accessories that go with it. It’s quite a process, described in great detail in this section. They use over a ton of gold and over 7000 pounds of silver, which seems difficult considering it’s a tent. I don’t know how you could even use that much gold decorating a tent. I guess the cover for the ark probably used a lot, and Aaron’s posse’s outfits must have taken a fair amount.
The slaughter from the last section got me wondering about just how many people were in this camp at this time. It was mentioned that the Levites under Moses’s command killed 3000 people, but it doesn’t say what percentage that is of the whole population. Well there just so happens to be a census now and that tax is collected that God mentioned in chapter 30. They round up 7,545 pounds of silver which, at a fifth of an ounce per person, would have come from (5*16*7,545=) 603,300 people. The verse says there were 603,550 men over twenty in the camp though so maybe a few weren’t puling their weight.
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