All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze. The bronze specification for all remaining tabernacle articles — including the tent pegs that anchor the structure to the ground — ensures that the complete material vocabulary of the courtyard level is bronze. The tent pegs that hold the tabernacle in the ground are as specified as the ark's gold overlay: nothing in the tabernacle's construction is left to the builder's discretion. Even the most ordinary components — tent pegs — are specified by material. The covenant God who specified the color of the carrying loops and the dimensions of the mercy seat also specifies the metal of the tent pegs. Nothing is beneath the attention of the one who designs His own dwelling.

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