Plaut noted that this important chapter in Israel's wilderness story – the order to construct the Tabernacle – begins in with the words "Moses then convoked" (, "vayakheil Mosheh"), heralding the conclusion of the cycle of apostasy and reconciliation that started in with a word with the same spelling and root, "the people gathered themselves" (, "vayikheil ha-am"). In the people assembled to rebel against God's desires in the incident of the Golden Calf, but in with an assembling (, "vayakheil") that God approved, God demonstrated God's forgiving grace.