He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
- BSB Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
- ESV He put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle.
- NKJV He hung up the screen at the door of the tabernacle.
- NASB Then he set up the curtain for the doorway of the tabernacle.
- NLT He hung the curtain at the entrance of the Tabernacle,
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Quick answer
Moses hung the screen at the entrance of the tabernacle. This curtain marked the doorway into the Holy Place.
Overview
The screen at the tabernacle door formed the controlled entrance into the Holy Place, where only the priests could go. It reinforced the graded holiness of the sanctuary and the careful approach God required. These barriers highlight humanity's need for a mediator, the role fulfilled by Christ who opens the way to God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Exod 40:5You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
- Heb 10:19–20Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
- John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- Exod 26:36–37“You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
- Exod 38:9–19He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
- John 10:9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
- Eph 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
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Christ at the center
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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