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Tabernacle The portable tent of meeting God instructed Moses to build as the center for worship (Exodus 26). The tabernacle contained the 'Holy Place' and the "Holy of Holies," where the high priest entered only once a year. The tabernacle went with Israel in the wanderings through the wilderness. The most sacred items of worship were kept in the tabernacle, which could be moved only by the priests. Eventually, the tabernacle was replaced when Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem.
Key KJV Scriptures:
Exodus 25:8-9,40; 26:1-37; Numbers 4; Hebrews 8:1-5; 9:1-12,23-24
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
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Exodus 25:40 (KJV)
And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
Exodus 26:1 (KJV)
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
Exodus 26:2 (KJV)
The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
Exodus 26:3 (KJV)
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
Exodus 26:4 (KJV)
And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Exodus 26:5 (KJV)
Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
Exodus 26:6 (KJV)
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Exodus 26:7 (KJV)
And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Exodus 26:8 (KJV)
The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.
Exodus 26:9 (KJV)
And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:10 (KJV)
And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
Exodus 26:11 (KJV)
And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
Exodus 26:12 (KJV)
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:13 (KJV)
And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
Exodus 26:14 (KJV)
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
Exodus 26:15 (KJV)
And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Exodus 26:16 (KJV)
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
Exodus 26:17 (KJV)
Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:18 (KJV)
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
Exodus 26:19 (KJV)
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Exodus 26:20 (KJV)
And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
Exodus 26:21 (KJV)
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus 26:22 (KJV)
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
Exodus 26:23 (KJV)
And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
Exodus 26:24 (KJV)
And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
Exodus 26:25 (KJV)
And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus 26:26 (KJV)
And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 26:27 (KJV)
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 two sides westward.
Exodus 26:28 (KJV)
And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
Exodus 26:29 (KJV)
And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
Exodus 26:30 (KJV)
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
Exodus 26:31 (KJV)
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
Exodus 26:32 (KJV)
And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
Exodus 26:33 (KJV)
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Exodus 26:34 (KJV)
And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
Exodus 26:35 (KJV)
And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
Exodus 26:36 (KJV)
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
Exodus 26:37 (KJV)
And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Exodus 27:1 (KJV)
And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
Exodus 27:2 (KJV)
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
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