It’s time to get a move on.

For the whole book of Vayiqra — and, indeed, for the better part of the book of Shəmot, too — the recently freed Israelites have been camped out at the base of Mt Sinai. Now, in the book of Bəmidbar, they’re going to pull up their stakes and start trudging around the wilderness in earnest.

But first, of course, they have to learn how to pack up the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary where the very Presence of G-d resides.