So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
- KJV And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
- NKJV And you shall raise up the tabernacle according to its pattern which you were shown on the mountain.
- NASB Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to its plan which you have been shown on the mountain.
- NLT “Set up this Tabernacle according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.
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Quick answer
Moses was to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown him on the mountain. Faithful adherence to God's design was again commanded.
Overview
As with the furnishings, the whole structure was to be erected exactly as God had revealed on Sinai. This repeated charge underscores that worship must conform to God's revelation, not human preference. The earthly tabernacle, built to the heavenly pattern, foreshadowed the true sanctuary fulfilled in Christ (Hebrews 8:5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Exod 25:40See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- Heb 8:5The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
- Exod 25:9You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.
- Acts 7:44Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
- Exod 40:17–18So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
- Josh 18:1Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
- Heb 8:2and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
- Heb 9:23So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- Num 10:21Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.
- Exod 27:8Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
- Exod 40:2“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
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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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