Scriptural Analysis- Exodus 37:10-16

10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.

12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.

13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.

14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

15 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.

16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.

Today covers the creation of the table of shewbread. Reading these verses, I had the thought occur to me that this whole account must be a summary of the entire work done, not necessarily a sequential log of what order all that work was accomplished in. It seems most likely that several instruments for the tabernacle were being worked on simultaneously. One man could be turning shittim wood into boards, another man could be fitting those into the structure of the table, another man could be carving the staves, and a fourth man could be making the golden dishes. And, simultaneously, even more men working on the ark, the candlestick, the laver, etc.

God often leaves those sorts of logistics to the individual. Sometimes He might give a specific process to follow, but often He only mandates an end result, a clear vision of what one needs to accomplish, and then man must determine his own methodology to divide that labor and bring the vision to reality.

Scriptural Analysis- Exodus 6:26-27

26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies. 

27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.

These are interesting verses, lauding the accomplishments of Moses and Aaron at the conclusion of giving their ancestry. The fact that it is tying Moses and Aaron to the events that we were already in the middle of reading is strong evidence that this whole genealogy sequence was actually a separate passage that was inserted in the middle of the other account. The record of Moses seems to be a patchwork of many different tellings all combined together, sometimes in haphazard ways.

One other thing that stands out to me is that the two men are first listed as “Aaron and Moses” and secondly as “Moses and Aaron.” This seems to emphasize their inseparable nature. There is no Moses rescuing captive Israel without Aaron, just as there is no Aaron performing the priestly rituals in the wilderness without Moses. Moses may have been the one God spoke directly to, but in their duty both men were equally yoked. They pulled together as one.