"And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them." As puts the anointing and the donning of the larger number of garments on the same level, therefore, just as the donning of the larger number of garments was required for seven days, so was the anointing obligatory for seven days. Rabbi Eliezer interpreted the words, "And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and [the Tabernacle] shall be sanctified by My glory," in to mean that God would in the future meet the Israelites and be sanctified among them. The Midrash reports that this occurred on the eighth day of the consecration of the Tabernacle, as reported in . And as reports, "when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces." The Mekhilta interpreted the words, "And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and it shall be sanctified by My glory," in to be the words to which Moses referred in , when he said, "This is it what the Lord spoke, saying: 'Through them who are near to Me I will be sanctified.'" The Gemara interpreted the report in that the Tabernacle "shall be sanctified by My glory" to refer to the death of Nadab and Abihu. The Gemara taught that one should read not "My glory" (bi-khevodi) but "My honored ones" (bi-khevuday). The Gemara thus taught that God told Moses in that God would sanctify the Tabernacle through the death of Nadab and Abihu, but Moses did not comprehend God's meaning until Nadab and Abihu died in . When Aaron's sons died, Moses told Aaron in that Aaron's sons died only that God's glory might be sanctified through them. When Aaron thus perceived that his sons were God's honored ones, Aaron was silent, as reports, "And Aaron held his peace," and Aaron was rewarded for his silence. Joshua ben Levi interpreted the words of , "And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, Who brought them out of the land of Egypt in order that I may dwell among them," to teach that the Israelites came out of Egypt only because God foresaw that they would later build God a Tabernacle. Exodus chapter 30 Rabbi Jose argued that the dimensions of the inner altar in helped to interpret the size of the