Exodus 38:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

Tabernacle of testimony

By the hand

Numbers 4:28

Ezra 8:26

Ithamar

Exodus 6:23

1 Chronicles 6:3

General references

Exodus 16:34

Exodus 25:16

Numbers 17:7

Bible References

Tabernacle of testimony

You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.

You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.

You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.

On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle -- the tent of the testimony -- and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.

On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.

Then Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.

"Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, "Why have you not made the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord's servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?"

Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.

Then the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

So Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, I will make three shelters -- one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,

By the hand

This is the service of the families of the Gershonites concerning the tent of meeting. Their responsibilities will be under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

I weighed out to them 650 talents of silver, silver vessels worth 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,

Ithamar

Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

General references

Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.

You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.

Then Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.