ments for ministering in the holy place, and the
holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to
minister in the priest's office. According to all that the Lord
commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. And Moses
saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as the Lord had
commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

_The Tabernacle Is Set Up_.

And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, "On the first day of the first
month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. And
thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen
the ark with the veil. And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in
order the things that are upon it; and thou shalt bring in the
candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.

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[Illustration]
FOUR THOUSAND YEARS UNCHANGED PATRIARCHAL LIFE IN PALESTINE TO-DAY

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood and used by special permission.

The unchanged habits of the East render it in this respect a kind of
living Pompeii. The outward appearances, which in the case of the
Greeks and Romans we know only through art and writing, through
marble, fresco, and parchment, in the case of Jewish history we know
through the forms of actual men, living and moving before us,
wearing almost the same garb, speaking in almost the same language,
and certainly with the same general turns of speech and tone and
manners. Such as we see them now, starting on a pilgrimage, or a
journey, were Abraham and his brother's son, when they "went forth"
to go into the land of Canaan. All their substance that they had
"gathered" is heaped high on the backs of their kneeling camels. The
slaves that they "had bought in Haran" run along by their sides.
Round about them are their flocks of sheep and goats, and the asses
moving underneath the towering forms of the camels. The chief is
there, amidst the stir of movement, or resting at noon within his
black tent, marked out from the rest by his cloak of brilliant
scarlet, by the fillet of rope which binds the loose handkerchief
round his head, by the spear which he holds in his hand to guide the
march, and to fix the encampment. The chief's wife, the princess of
the tribe, is there in her own tent, to make the cakes and prepare
the usual meal of milk and butter; the slave or the child is ready
to bring in the red lentil soup for the weary hunter, o