Unlike our family packing to move, the Israelites have a system. Each tribe is responsible for packing and moving something different. Whole lot of sea cow being used to wrap things here. I've posted a sea cow here if you're wondering. It's like a manatee. So where did they get a hold of sea cow skin in the desert? Someone have a pond and farm-raising sea cows?
I wonder how the Merarites felt about their duty. Nothing exciting about what they're lugging. No warnings that if they touch it they'll die or anything. They're in charge of tabernacle infrastructure. You know, the frames and crossbars and posts and bases and tent pegs and ropes people. They're sort of responsible for the behind-the-scenes stuff. [You know, it takes a tribe to build a tabernacle.] They probably had to wait until all of the curtains and stuff were taken down before they even could get started on what they were doing.
Do you think all of these tribes help one another even though they were assigned different things? Or were they legalistic or like a labor union in Chicago: "I'm sorry we can't help you with that. You'll have to get the Gershonites for that. We're Merarites. All we do is frames and crossbars and posts and bases and tent pegs and ropes and such. That's what we do." Or, maybe, they just said, "Sorry, can't help you. That's not my gift."
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