And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
Parallel translations
- WEB See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
- BSB See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- NKJV And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
- NASB See that you make them by the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain.
- NLT “Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern I have shown you here on the mountain.
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Quick answer
Moses was charged to make everything exactly after the pattern shown him on the mountain. God's worship is to be ordered by His design, not human invention.
Overview
The tabernacle and its furnishings were to mirror a heavenly pattern revealed to Moses, leaving nothing to improvisation. This insistence on faithfulness to the divine blueprint shaped Israel's whole worship. Hebrews 8:5 cites this verse to show that the earthly tabernacle was a copy and shadow of heavenly realities fulfilled in Christ, our true High Priest in the true sanctuary.
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 7:44Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
- Exod 26:30And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
- Heb 8:5Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
- Exod 25:9According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
- Num 8:4And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
- 1 Chr 28:19All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
- Exod 39:42–43According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
- 1 Chr 28:11Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
- Ezek 43:11–12And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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