Although some have professed that the Lord would reveal to Nephi all that he needed to know to "construct a ship after the manner that I shall show thee" (1 Nephi 17:8), the Jewish Torah tells of the Tabernacle being made by those who already possessed the necessary skills to do so, even though they were endowed with divine help to increase their skill in making it (Exodus 25:8, 9; 3:3-5). According to Keith Christensen, it should be remembered that since the times of Solomon, [the Israelites] had been making and sailing ships from the port of Ezion-geber (on the northern tip of the Red Sea). This means that going south along the coast of the Red Sea, there would have been a shipbuilding industry from which Nephi could have learned shipbuilding and what tools were needed. [B. Keith Christensen, The Unknown Witness, pp. 60-61, unpublished]