The virtual repetition of the earlier chapters in this section is meant to teach the obedience of Moses to detail. The instructions of God were carried out meticulously, and everything merely human was refused and rejected. This is how God said it should be, and this is how Moses decided it would be. God has His divine order for His people and His work, and every desire after approximation to it meets with His delighted blessing and benediction. But when something is repeated in Scripture, it is meant also to write on our minds the more decisively the importance of the truths concerned. We can gauge therefore the importance of 'the pattern shown in the mount' for this particular work of God.
Another lesson that stands out in this passage is the harmony with which the people set about the task of building the tabernacle. There was no dissension. They had a common aim, and something higher than their own ends to grip and inspire them; this was a unifying power in the congregation of Israel. It is the lack of such a unifying inspiration that has spelt such disunity among the churches today. The need is for men's hearts to be gripped afresh by the gospel, 'according to the pattern shown in the mount'. This alone can bring us near to Christ and, nearer Him, we shall be nearer one another.