the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;
Parallel translations
- WEB the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
- KJV The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
- NKJV the tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
- NASB the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;
- NLT the Tabernacle and its sacred tent, its covering, clasps, frames, crossbars, posts, and bases;
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Quick answer
The list of items to be made begins with the tabernacle's structure: coverings, clasps, boards, bars, pillars, and sockets.
Overview
Moses inventories the framework and coverings of the tabernacle, the dwelling where God would meet His people. Each detail mattered because the whole structure was a divinely designed copy of heavenly realities. The tabernacle ultimately points to Christ, who 'tabernacled' among us, and to God's dwelling with His people (John 1:14; Hebrews 8:5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Exod 26:1–37“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.
- Exod 36:8–34All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
- Exod 31:7–9the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony and the mercy seat upon it, and all the other furnishings of the tent—
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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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