A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
Parallel translations
- WEB For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
- KJV For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
- NKJV For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary;
- NASB For a tabernacle was equipped, the outer sanctuary, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the sacred bread; this is called the Holy Place.
- NLT There were two rooms in that Tabernacle. In the first room were a lampstand, a table, and sacred loaves of bread on the table. This room was called the Holy Place.
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Quick answer
The outer room of the tabernacle, the Holy Place, contained the lampstand, table, and showbread. These furnishings were part of God's prescribed worship.
Overview
The writer describes the tabernacle's first compartment with its lampstand, table, and consecrated bread. These objects, detailed in Exodus, served daily priestly ministry. The description underscores the structured, limited access of old-covenant worship, contrasting with the open access believers now have through Christ.
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- Exod 40:4Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps.
- Lev 24:5–8You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
- Exod 26:35And place the table outside the veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand opposite the table, on the south side.
- Exod 40:22–24Moses placed the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.
- Exod 26:33And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- Exod 40:18–20When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.
- Exod 39:32–34So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Exod 40:2“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
- Exod 36:8–38All 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 29:35This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.
- Exod 39:36–38the table with all its utensils and the Bread of the Presence;
- Exod 25:8–9And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
- Exod 29:1“Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish,
- Exod 25:23You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- Exod 37:10–24He also made the table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
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