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“For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the Lord. There I will meet you and speak to you;
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“So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
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It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high—its horns of one piece with it.
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Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
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“Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.
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Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the Lord.”
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Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord, making atonement for your lives.”
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“Make a bronze basin, with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
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Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the Lord,
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Then use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law,
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Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.
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the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law with the atonement cover on it, and all the other furnishings of the tent—
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The Tent of Meeting
Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.” Anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.
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And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent.
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As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the Lord spoke with Moses.
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Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent.
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The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.
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Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
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the tabernacle with its tent and its covering, clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases;
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the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard, and their ropes;
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and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved them came and brought an offering to the Lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
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The Tabernacle
All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands.
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They made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether.
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They made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the tent together as a unit.
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Then they made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather.
