Exodus 39:27–29
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The modern evangelical mind, to the extent that it thinks about such things, approaches God with a kind of slouching familiarity. We believe that so long as the heart is right, the rest is a matter of personal taste and cultural preference. And then we come to a passage like this one in Exodus 39, and our entire edifice of casual, contemporary worship ought to be rattled to its foundations. Here, at the tail end of the instructions for the Tabernacle, we are given a detailed inventory from God's wardrobe department. We are talking about tunics, turbans, caps, undergarments, and sashes. We are talking about the difference between finely woven linen and fine twisted linen. This is a God of glorious, painstaking, and absolute specificity. This passage is a direct assault on our modern sensibilities. Why on earth would the God of the universe care about the priests' underwear?