"They had done it as the Lord had commanded"

In The Ten Commandments, there's not much that happens between when Moses leads the children of Israel out of Egypt until he comes down from the mount with the stone tablets and breaks them.



In the Book of Exodus, there's a lot, and it's mostly very detailed instructions about how to build the Tabernacle of the Congregation and what to put in it and where.

As I read the many chapters with these specific instructions (dimensions, colors, space between pillars, how to hang curtains) I had the thought that the lesson taught here is one of exactness.



That word appears only once in the Standard Works, in Alma 57:21--"Yea, and they did obey and observe to perform every word of command with exactness; yea, and even according to their faith it was done unto them; and I did remember the words which they said unto me that their mothers had taught them." That's in reference to the 2,000 Stripling Warriors.

But Exodus ends with a similar sentiment:

Exodus 39:43--"And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them."

Exodus 40 uses the phrase, "as the Lord commanded" several times also.

These can serve as reminders that we should follow God's commands with exactness in our own lives.