Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
- BSB So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- NKJV Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished. And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses; so they did.
- NASB So 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.
- NLT And so at last the Tabernacle was finished. The Israelites had done everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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Quick answer
All the work of the tabernacle was finished, and Israel did everything just as Yahweh commanded Moses. Obedience was complete.
Overview
This summary verse marks the completion of the entire tabernacle and its furnishings. The emphatic statement that the people did 'according to all that Yahweh commanded' echoes the language of creation's finishing (Genesis 2:1-2), presenting the sanctuary as a new ordered dwelling where God meets His people. Such wholehearted obedience stands in glad contrast to Israel's earlier rebellion with the golden calf.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Exod 39:42–43According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Exod 25:40See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
- Deut 12:32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
- Lev 8:1–9Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Num 4:4–32“This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things.
- Num 3:31Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.
- Exod 25:1–31Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Exod 39:33They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
- Num 3:36–37The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
- Heb 8:5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”
- Exod 35:1–35Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.
- Num 3:25–26The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,
- 1 Chr 28:19“All this”, said David, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
- 1 Sam 15:22Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
- Exod 40:32When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Heb 3:2who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
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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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