Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit. The outer tent's clasps are bronze rather than gold — the material gradation from the inner sanctuary outward that characterizes the entire tabernacle design. Gold clasps for the inner curtains, bronze clasps for the outer tent. The same unit — echad — achieved through the bronze clasps as through the gold clasps of the inner layer. The outer unity is expressed in the less precious material appropriate to the outer layer. The consistency of the one-unit principle across both layers — gold inside, bronze outside — is the spatial expression of the God who is the same inside and out, all the way to the boundary of His dwelling.

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