Midrash sur L’Exode 28:6

How many were skilled but could not erect the Tabernacle?³¹Exod. R. 52:4. Solomon said (in Prov. 31:29): MANY DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE VALIANTLY, <BUT YOU SURPASS THEM ALL>. Why? Because they built the Tabernacle but did not know how to set it up. Each and everyone took his work and went to Moses. Each and every one would say: Here is my hook. Here is my board. Here is my bolt. But the Holy Spirit rested upon Moses, and he erected the tabernacle. Still you should not say <that> Moses <did it>. Rather The Tabernacle arose by itself, as stated (in Exod. 40:17): THE TABERNACLE WAS ERECTED. And you should not speak of the Tabernacle < alone being automatically erected >, but also of the Universal House (i.e., the Temple).³²On the Temple erecting itself, see Numb. R. 14:3; PR 6:7. Had it not been for the Holy One helping, neither Solomon nor all Israel would have built it. Where is it shown? Where David says so (in Ps. 127:1): UNLESS THE LORD BUILDS THE HOUSE, [THE BUILDERS' LABOR ON IT IN VAIN]. Therefore, the Tabernacle was erected through work of miracles. As soon as that Tabernacle was erected, all Israel began to rejoice, as stated (in Cant. 3:11): O DAUGHTERS OF ZION, GO FORTH AND GAZE AT KING SOLOMON (rt.: ShLM), <i.e.> at the king to whom peace (rt.: ShLM) belongs, i.e., the Supreme King of Kings, the Holy One. (Ibid., cont.:) [IN THE CROWN WITH WHICH HIS MOTHER CROWNED HIM, for the < verse here> is calling the Tabernacle a crown. Just as this crown is described, so was the Tabernacle described (e.g., in Exod. 36:35): BLUE AND PURPLE.³³These words also appear with reference to the Tabernacle in Exod. 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36; 27:16; 35:6, 23; 36:8, 37; 38:18. Cf. II Chron. 3:14, which uses the words with reference to the Temple. Nowhere do these words refer to a crown, but cf. Numb. R. 12:8, and Cant. R. 3:11:2 which maintain that the Tabernacle was like a crown because it was set with various elements like blue and purple which one would expect to find in a crown. See also Exod. 28:6, 8, 15, 33; 39: 1–2, 5, 8, 24, 29 where the high-priestly breast plate, the ephod, and various other articles of priestly clothing all have BLUE AND PURPLE.