The Colours of the Tabernacle

Colours seem to have some sort of order or priority. Linen connected with white, then scarlet, purple and blue. White has connotations of purity and cleansing. Purple is connected with royalty and also possibly with smoke. And then blue is connected with the sky, with the heavens and with the firmament. More generally, perhaps we should see a sort of ascension through colours. Here, the greatest item of all is covered with a covering that has interwoven blue, purple, scarlet and linen,. A sort of rainbow covering that incorporates within itself all of these different levels of covering. The heaviest items of the tabernacle, the primary structural elements, were the responsibility