So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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.
- 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
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- Exod 39:42–43The Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Exod 25:40See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- Deut 12:32See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
- Lev 8:1–9Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Num 4:4–32This service of the Kohathites at the Tent of Meeting regards the most holy things.
- Num 3:31Their duties were the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used with them, and the curtain—all the service for these items.
- Exod 25:1–31Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Exod 39:33Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, and its posts and bases;
- Num 3:36–37The duties assigned to the sons of Merari were the tabernacle’s frames, crossbars, posts, bases, and all its equipment—all the service for these items,
- 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 35:1–35Then Moses assembled the whole congregation of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:
- Num 3:25–26The duties of the Gershonites at the Tent of Meeting were the tabernacle and tent, its covering, the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
- 1 Chr 28:19“All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”
- 1 Sam 15:22But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
- Exod 40:32They washed whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Heb 3:2He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s 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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