The design of the activity is to get you to recognize patterns, whether it’s shapes, colors, numbers or some combination of those items, the goal is to train you to be able to detect where a pattern is and then duplicate it.  Well, that’s what’s occurring in our text this morning.  Daniel is providing us with a pattern in an area; he’s educating us, but we often miss the pattern.  We see a historical event, but not the activity that is to be duplicated.