We're about to see a repeat of something we've already read and yet despite the fact that it might be a nuisance to a modern reader, it meant something very specific to the original ancient reader. We're about to see some unique features of the ancient Israel culture and what they mean when they talk about God visiting the sins of the fathers to the 3rd and 4th generation.

In this episode we are interrupted from a conversation between Moses and God due to the people of Israel coming up with their own system of worship that actually flies directly in the face of what YHWH has clearly expressed he wants from his people. God gets mad, Moses gets mad, there's some shouting and some crying and God ultimately threatens to abandon Israel. Is God playing reverse psychology or did he really mean it?

God is creating a whole method for dwelling with his people among His creation. In constructing a tabernacle his is also setting the stage for how it can be possible for him to reside among people who continually sin, rebel against him, and reject his laws. Although this place of worship resembles some other pagan worship sites again God's purpose is taking things they are familiar with and reorienting the way they interact with, and understand what it means to enter Holy places.