Tabernacle

How Nave’s arranged it

• One existed before Moses received the pattern authorized on Mount SinaiExodus 33:7–11
• The one instituted by Moses was called
• SANCTUARYExodus 25:8
• TABERNACLE (A. V.), TENT OF MEETING (R. V.)Exodus 27:21
• TABERNACLE (A. V.), TENT (R. V.)Exodus 33:72 Chronicles 5:5
• OF TESTIMONYExodus 38:21Numbers 1:50
• TENT OF TESTIMONY (R. V.)Numbers 17:7Numbers 17:82 Chronicles 24:6
• TEMPLE OF THE LORD1 Samuel 1:91 Samuel 3:3
• HOUSE OF THE LORDJoshua 6:24
• Pattern of, revealed to MosesExodus 25:9Exodus 26:30Exodus 39:32Exodus 39:42Exodus 39:43Acts 7:44Hebrews 8:5
• Materials for, voluntarily offeredExodus 25:1–8Exodus 35:4–29Exodus 36:3–7
• Value of the substance contributed forExodus 38:24–31

The passages, in Bible order (130)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 23:17

   Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

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   “Three times . . . keep a feast . . . in the year--This was the institution of the great religious festivals--"The feast of unleavened bread," or the passover--"the feast of harvest," or pentecost--"the feast of ingathering," or the feast of tabernacles, which was a memorial of the dwelling in booths in the wilderness, and which was observed in the seventh month (Ex 12:2).

   “All thy males - All that were of competent years, and health and strength, and at their own disposal. 'Tis probable, servants were exempt: for none was to appear without an offering: but most of these had nothing to offer.

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2. Exodus 25:1–8

   Then the LORD said to Moses,

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   “Yahweh had redeemed the Israelites from bondage. He had made a covenant with them and had given them laws. He had promised, on condition of their obedience, to accept them as His own “peculiar treasure,” as “a kingdom of priests and an holy nation” Exo 19:5-6. And now He was ready visibly to testify that He made his abode with them.

   “They might well afford to offer liberally for the honour of God, while they lived at free quarters, having food for themselves and their families rained upon them daily from heaven. We also must own that we have our all from God's bounty, and therefore ought to use all for his glory. Since we live upon him, we must live to him.

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3. Exodus 25:5

   ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

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   “And rams' skins died red,....

   “Rams’ skins dyed red - ערת אילם מאדמים oroth eylim meoddamim, literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact attested by many respectable travelers, that in the Levant sheep are often to be met with that have red or violet-coloured fleeces. And almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing. Homer describes the rams of Polyphemus as having a violet-coloured fleece. Αρσενες οΐες ησαν εΰτρεφεες, δασυμαλλοι, Καλοι τε, μεγαλοι τε, ιοδνεφες ειρος εχοντες. Odyss., lib. ix., ver. 425. “Strong were the rams, with native purple fair, Well fed, and largest of the fleecy care.” Pope.

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4. Exodus 25:8

   And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

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   “Let them make me a sanctuary - מקדש mikdash, a holy place, such as God might dwell in; this was that part of the tabernacle that was called the most holy place, into which the high priest entered only once a year, on the great day of atonement. That I may dwell among them - “This,” says Mr. Ainsworth, “was the main end of all; and to this all the particulars are to be referred, and by this they are to be opened.

   “And let them make me a sanctuary,....

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5. Exodus 25:9

   You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 25:92 voices

   “By saying [to him], "You shall make everything according to the model of the tabernacle that I will show you," he first called it a model and a temporal tabernacle to indicate that it was transitory and that it would be replaced by the church, …

   “After the pattern of the tabernacle - It has been supposed that there had been a tabernacle before that erected by Moses, though it probably did not now exist; but the tabernacle which Moses is ordered to make was to be formed exactly on the model of this ancient one, the pattern of which God showed him in the mount, Exo 25:40. The word משכן mishcan signifies literally the dwelling or habitation; and this was so called because it was the dwelling place of God; and the only place on the earth in which he made himself manifest.

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6. Exodus 25:10–40

   And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

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   “But when the passage about the equipment of the tabernacle is read, believing that the things described therein are types, some seek for ideas which they can attach to each detail that is mentioned in connection with the tabernacle. Now so far as concerns their belief that the tabernacle is a type of something they are not wrong. But in rightly attaching the word of Scripture to the particular idea of which the tabernacle is a type, here they sometimes fall into error.

   “The tables of the law are called the testimony, because God did in them testify his will; his giving them that law was in token of his favour to them, and their acceptance of it was in token of their subjection to him.

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7. Exodus 26:1–14

   “You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

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   “Moreover, thou shalt make the tabernacle,....

   “(Compare Exo. 36:8-33.) The tabernacle was to comprise three main parts, the tabernacle Exo 26:1-6, more strictly so-called, its tent Exo 26:7-13, and its covering Exo 26:14 (Compare Exo 35:11; Exo 39:33-34; Exo 40:19, Exo 40:34; Num 3:25, etc.). These parts are very clearly distinguished in the Hebrew, but they are confounded in many places of the English Version (see Exo 26:7, Exo 26:9, etc.).

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8. Exodus 26:7–14

   You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

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   “Thus the churches of Christ, though they are many, yet are one, being fitly joined together in holy love and by the unity of the Spirit, so growing into one holy temple in the Lord. This tabernacle was very strait and narrow, but at the preaching of the gospel, the church is bid to enlarge the place of her tent, and to stretch forth her curtains, Isaiah liv, 2.

   “And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair,....

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9. Exodus 26:14

   Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.

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   “And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red,....

   “Rams’ skins dyed red - See Clarke’s note on Exo 25:5. This was the third covering; and what is called the badgers’ skins was the fourth. See Clarke’s note on Exo 25:5. Why there should have been four coverings does not appear.

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10. Exodus 26:15–37

    You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

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    “Thus every thing in the tabernacle was very splendid, agreeable to that infant state of the church, when such things were proper to possess the minds of the worshippers with a reverence of the divine glory. In allusion to this, the new Jerusalem is said to be of pure gold, Rev. xxi, 18.

    “And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,....

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11. Exodus 26:30

    So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

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    “And thou shall rear up the tabernacle,.... When thus finished, and all the furniture belonging to it completed: according to the fashion thereof, which was showed thee in the mount; this is the third time that this is observed to Moses in the account of the tabernacle; which shows how punctually God would have the pattern observed he had given him, and that all things might be particularly and exactly done according to it, see Heb 8:5.

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12. Exodus 26:31–37

    Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

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    “The apostle tells us, this veil, intimated that the ceremonial law could not make the comers thereunto perfect. The way into the holiest was not made manifest while the first tabernacle was standing; life and immortality lay concealed till they were brought to light by the gospel, which was therefore signified by the rending of this veil at the death of Christ.

    “Thou shalt make a veil - פרכת parocheth, from פרך parach, to break or rend; the inner veil of the tabernacle or temple, (2Ch 3:14), which broke, interrupted, or divided between the holy place and the most holy; the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was standing. Compare Heb 9:8. The Septuagint constantly render it by καταπετασμα. Does not the Hebrew name פרכת parocheth moreover intimate the typical correspondence of this veil to the body or flesh of Christ?

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13. Exodus 26:33–35

    And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

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    “We have not boldness to enter into the holiest, in all acts of devotion, by the blood of Jesus, yet such as obliges us to a holy reverence and a humble sense of our distance. Another veil was for the outer door of the tabernacle,

    “If the ancient custom of sacrifices is clear to you, let us see what these things also contain according to the mystical understanding. You heard that there were two sanctuaries, one, as it were, visible and open to the priests; the other, as it were, invisible and inaccessible. With the exception of the high priest alone, the others were outside.

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14. Exodus 27:1–8

    “You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

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    “And thou shall make an altar of shittim wood,.... This is a different altar from that made of earth before the tabernacle was built, Exo 20:24 and from the altar of incense, Exo 30:1 this was to offer burnt offerings on, and was placed at the door of the tabernacle, in the court of the people, where they brought their sacrifices to the priests to offer for them: it stood in the open air, as it was proper it should, that the smoke or the sacrifices might ascend up and scatter.

    “(Compare Exo 38:1-7.) The great altar which stood in the court immediately in front of the tabernacle was commonly called the altar of burnt-offering, because on it were burnt the whole burnt-offerings, and all those parts of the other animal sacrifices which were offered to the Lord. It was also called the brazen altar, because it was covered with bronze, in distinction from the golden altar or altar of incense Exo 39:38-39; Exo 40:5-

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15. Exodus 27:9–16

    You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,

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    “And thou shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward,....

    “The court of the tabernacle - (Compare Exo 38:9-20) Exo 27:9 The south side southward - The south side on the right. See Exo 26:18. Exo 27:10 Sockets - Bases. See Exo 26:19. Fillets - Rather, Connecting rods; curtain-rods of silver connecting the heads of the pillars. The hangings were attached to the pillars by the silver hooks; but the length of the space between the pillars would render it most probable that they were also in some way fastened to these rods. Exo 27:13 The east side eastward - On the front side eastward.

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16. Exodus 27:19

    All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.

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    “All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof,....

    “All the vessels - shall be of brass - It would have been improper to have used instruments made of the more precious metals about this altar, as they must have been soon worn out by the severity of the service.

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