You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
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You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
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And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
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And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been shown thee in the mount.
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Passages linked to Exodus 26:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 25:40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
- Hebrews 8:5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”
- Exodus 25:9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
- Acts 7:44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
- Exodus 27:8 You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
- Exodus 40:2 “On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
- Exodus 40:17-18 In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up. Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
- Numbers 10:21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.
- Joshua 18:1 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.
- Hebrews 8:2 a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
- Hebrews 9:23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Either by visible representation to his eye, or rather…
Either by visible representation to his eye, or rather by mental vision or impression of it upon his imagination.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of…
And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood, overlaid with gold,.... For it was ten cubits long, and as many broad; and being of such a stiffness and thickness as it was, required so many pillars to support it: these pillars may signify the deity of Christ, which is the support of his human nature, and in which it has its personal subsistence, and gives all its actions and sufferings virtue and efficacy; and being of "shittim wood", which is incorruptible, may denote his eternity, and being covered with gold, his glory:
their hooks shall be of gold; which were upon the tops of the pillars on which the vail was hung: and the pillars were
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upon the four sockets of silver; which were properly the pedestals or feet of the pillars; and these sockets, into which the pillars were let and placed, and the hooks the vail hung by, may hint to the union of the two natures in Christ, who is God and man in one person, God manifest in the flesh; see Sol 5:15.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 30. Thou shalt rear up the tabernacle — The…
30. Thou shalt rear up the tabernacle — The making and erection of the tabernacle involved a great many details which are not here recorded; but as Moses was shown the fashion thereof, (Hebrews its judgment,) he understood perfectly what was judged, and ordered to be, the appropriate arrangement of each part.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 30. Cf. Exo_25:9; Exo_25:40; and see Exo_40:18.
30. Cf. Exo_25:9; Exo_25:40; and see Exo_40:18.
fashion] more exactly, prescribed norm: cf. 1Ki_6:38, Eze_42:11; and see on this sense of mishpâṭ the writer’s Jeremiah, p. 345.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (30) According to the fashion thereof which was shewed…
(30) According to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee.—See Exo_25:9; Exo_25:40. However minute—even tediously minute—the description, there would necessarily have been a multitude of particulars, not to be described in words, where Moses would have to be guided by the pattern that he had seen.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain According to the fashion. Where the description was incomplete…
According to the fashion. Where the description was incomplete (and it could not but be incomplete in many points), Moses was to follow his recollection of the "pattern," which either in vision, or otherwise he had seen in the mount This would be his best guide, for
Segnius irritant animum demissa per aures, Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus.
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HOMILIES BY G. A. GOODHART Ver. 30. God dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
An idea, to be realised, must be embodied; e.g. , thoughts must be expressed in words; the vision of the artist must take form on canvas or in marble. So, too, with the Divine ideas; they also must be embodied, and as presented for man"s instruction, they must be so embodied that man may apprehend them. The unseen must be made visible; the pattern on the mount must be modelled and reared up upon the plain. Notice
I THE DIVINE IDEAL. Moses was shown the original Divine embodiment, not a mere toy model which he was to enlarge, but the actual God-fashioned tabernacle, in all the perfection of its related parts. So far as man was concerned, it might be a purely ideal structure; but the ideals of earth are the realities of heaven. The holy of holies, and the holy place, and the outer court all these must exist, or Moses could not have been shown them. May we not also discern dimly that reality which Moses saw? The holy of holies, where God"s throne is set heaven in its innermost recesses, screened off from earth by the blue sky-curtain, which no unaided eye can pierce. The holy place and the outer court, God"s earthly sanctuary, his Church in this world, related on the one side to heaven, and on the other to the world around it; the visible heavens are, in some sort, an expression of this Divine idea, illuminated by the sun, (cf. Ps 19) and with the earth from man"s standpoint forming a kind of outer court. Even this true tabernacle (cf. Heb_8:2) is only an embodiment of the Divine idea; but then it is the Divine embodiment, the expression found for it by God himself.
II THE HUMAN COPY. The divine ideal as divinely embodied is still beyond man"s understanding; it needs to be translated for men into language with which they are familiar. The child must be spoken to as, (Isa_28:11) "with stammering lips and a feigned tongue." The tabernacle of nature expresses God"s idea in polysyllables; the tabernacle which Moses reared translates it into easier language. Notice
1. The holy of holies.
(1) The sanctity of the Divine dwelling-place emphasises the sanctity of its Divine inmate. "Clouds and darkness are round about him." "Holiness becometh his house for ever.
(2) "Righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne;" it is founded upon a guarded law.
(3) Mercy rejoiceth over judgment. God is just, or righteous, but also the justifier who makes righteous. "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
2. The holy place. God has made it possible for man to approach him. They who may not bear the presence may yet be admitted to the ante-chamber. The Church is the link between heaven and earth, as the high priest is the link between the Divine and human. Notice
(1) The golden altar. The fumes of the incense may penetrate the veil, which shuts out the priest who offers it. Prayer can go where the worshipper cannot go.
(2) The golden candlestick. No lamp needed in the holiest place. (cf. Rev_21:23) Here, when man meets with God, for man"s sake the lamp is needed. The light derived from God must be guarded by man, so only is the required illumination to be secured.
(3) The golden table. Furnished week by week with food satisfying alike to God and man. Such the Church a heaven on earth. Prayer ascending towards the unseen holy; light from God carefully guarded; offerings wherein God and man both find satisfaction such are the notes of a true Church, one wherein man may have communion with his Maker, holy as preluding to the holy of holies.
(4) The outer court. Here we have the first stage in man"s progress from the world God-wards. The altar and the laver, sacrifice and purification, must come before communion. Consecration and cleansing precede intercourse and fellowship, and these again prepare for the beatific vision.
Conclusion. What is the central thought thus shadowed forth? Is it not this: God"s holiness can only be approached step by step, whilst the road by which we must approach it is that which will ensure for us growth in holiness. "The pure in heart shall see God;" the beatific vision is for those only whose spiritual eyesight has been prepared for its reception. We cannot come up to the throne of God save through the outer court and through the sanctuary; sacrifice and cleansing, illumination and communion; then, for those who can receive it, the open vision and the presence of God. G.
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