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Now all was finished. Besaleel and Aholiab appeared to be the most
skillful of the workmen; for they invented finer works than what others
had done before them, and were of great abilities to gain notions of what
they were formerly ignorant of; and of these, Besaleel was judged to be
the best. Now the whole time they were about this work was the interval
of seven months; and after this it was that was ended the first year since
their departure out of Egypt. But at the beginning of the second year,
on the month Xanthicus, as the Macedonians call it, but on the month
Nisan, as the Hebrews call it, on the new moon, they consecrated
the tabernacle, and all its vessels, which I have already described.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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