He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
- BSB And Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.
- NKJV And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
- NASB And he erected the courtyard all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the curtain for the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.
- NLT Then he hung the curtains forming the courtyard around the Tabernacle and the altar. And he set up the curtain at the entrance of the courtyard. So at last Moses finished the work.
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Quick answer
Moses set up the courtyard and its gate, and so finished the work. The completed tabernacle stood ready as God's dwelling among Israel.
Overview
With the court erected and its entrance screen hung, the entire tabernacle project was complete. The note that 'Moses finished the work' echoes the completion of creation and the later finishing of Christ's redemptive work. The finished sanctuary set the stage for God's glory to descend, fulfilling the purpose of His dwelling among His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Exod 40:8You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
- Exod 27:9–16“You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
- Exod 39:32Thus 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.
- 2 Tim 4:7I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
- John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
- Eph 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
- John 17:4I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
- Zech 4:9“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
- Heb 3:2–5who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
- John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- 1 Kgs 6:9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
- 1 Cor 12:12For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
- Num 1:50but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
- 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.
- Matt 16:8Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’
- Heb 4:14–16Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
- Eph 4:11–13He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
- 1 Cor 12:28God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
- Heb 9:6–7Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
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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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