For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
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.
- BSB A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
- 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 40:4And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
- Lev 24:5–8And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
- Exod 26:35And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
- Exod 40:22–24And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
- Exod 26:33And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
- Exod 40:18–20And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
- Exod 39:32–34Thus 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.
- Exod 40:2On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
- Exod 36:8–38And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
- Exod 29:35And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
- Exod 39:36–38The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,
- Exod 25:8–9And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
- Exod 29:1And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
- Exod 25:23Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
- Exod 37:10–24And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
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