God’s True Tabernacle

⁴⁴ “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses ^(A)to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,

⁴⁰ And ^(A)see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.

Materials of the Tabernacle

^21 [a]This is the inventory of the tabernacle, ^(A)the tabernacle of the Testimony, which was counted according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, ^(B)by the hand of ^(C)Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.

⁵ who serve ^(A)the copy and ^(B)shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, ^(C)“See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

² a Minister of ^(A)the ^[a]sanctuary and of ^(B)the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.

^6 (A)So the king called Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of ^(B)Moses the servant of the Lord and of the assembly of Israel, for the ^(C)tabernacle of witness?”

¹⁹ “All this,” said David, ^(A)“the Lord made me understand in writing, by His hand upon me, all the ^[a]works of these plans.”

¹¹ Then David gave his son Solomon ^(A)the plans for the vestibule, its houses, its treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner chambers, and the place of the mercy seat;

The Remainder of the Land Divided

18 Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together ^(A)at Shiloh, and ^(B)set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.

² Also bring with you your brethren of the ^(A)tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be ^(B)joined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the tabernacle of ^[a]witness.