'Tabernacle' in the Bible
According to all that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, just so you shall construct it.
“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
“Then you shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven curtains in all.
The overlapping part that is left over in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle.
The cubit on one side and the cubit on the other, of what is left over in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall lap over the sides of the tabernacle on one side and on the other, to cover it.
“Then you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
There shall be two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.
You shall make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side.
and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
For the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, you shall make six boards.
You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear.
“Then you shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle,
and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the rear side to the west.
Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to its plan which you have been shown in the mountain.
You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.
“You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side there shall be hangings for the court of fine twisted linen one hundred cubits long for one side;
All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, and all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.
the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
and the altar of incense and its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the doorway at the entrance of the tabernacle;
the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court and their cords;
All the skillful men among those who were performing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material, with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman, Bezalel made them.
He made fifty clasps of gold and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps, so the tabernacle was a unit.
Then he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains in all.
Then he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
There were two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; thus he did for all the boards of the tabernacle.
He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side;
Then for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,
For the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six boards.
He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear.
Then he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle,
and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the rear side to the west.
All the pegs of the tabernacle and of the court all around were of bronze.
This is the number of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were numbered according to the command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
and the sockets of the court all around and the sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.
Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was completed; and the sons of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses; so they did.
They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings: its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars and its sockets;
the hangings for the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pegs and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;
“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
Moreover, you shall set the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.
You shall set the altar of burnt offering in front of the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall consecrate it and all its furnishings; and it shall be holy.
Now in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.
Moses erected the tabernacle and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and inserted its bars and erected its pillars.
He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up a veil for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Then he put the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.
Then he placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
He set the altar of burnt offering before the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
He erected the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the veil for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
Throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;
For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.