Questions tagged [tabernacle]
the portable center of worship used by Israel during the 40 years in the desert (and in the land until the temple was built).
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How were the the duties of the Levites intergrated during the stationary Temple?
When the first mobile tabernacle was built three divisions of the Levites namely Kohathites,Gershonites and Merarites were allocated different duties.Their duties entailed carrying the mobile ...
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How did Moses remember the instructions for the tabernacle and priestly vestments?
Obviously God gave very detailed instructions to Moses about how to build the tabernacle and the garments of the priests.
How did Moses remember all of these details? Did he write them down like after ...
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Did G'd live truly in a tent?
Shabbat Shalom, I've heard a rabbi, and he said that G'd lives inside human beings since always, but I found this verse from II Samuel 7:6:
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What is the meaning of the Comparison of Circumcision and Healing
In John 7:22 we can read the following:
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not
because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day
circumcise a man. (KJV)
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In Hebrews 9:23, Why is the purification of Heavenly things achieved by "sacrifices" (plural) [duplicate]
In Hebrews 9:11-12 we are told that Jesus our High Priest enters the Most Holy Place only once
11But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have
come, He went through the greater and ...
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Meaning and Symbology of "Bronze" in scripture
In scripture different "materials" are often used in prophecy dreams and visions to convey meaning. Additionally different materials were also used for constructing different aspects of the ...
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What is the symbolism related to Lev 23:40
Feast of Tabernacles is one of God's appointed times. What is the significance of Lev 23:40, in particular the branches and leafy trees?
On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees,...
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Exodus 20:4 order prohibiting making idols in the likeness heavenly aspects w/ Tabernacle(Exodus 25:18-) & Solomon's Temple(2 Chronicles 3:11)
20:4 Hebrew OT: Westminster Leningrad Codex לֹֽ֣א תַֽעֲשֶׂ֨ה־לְךָ֥֣
פֶ֣֙סֶל֙ ׀ וְכָל־תְּמוּנָ֡֔ה אֲשֶׁ֤֣ר בַּשָּׁמַ֣֙יִם֙ ׀ מִמַּ֡֔עַל
וַֽאֲשֶׁ֥ר֩ בָּאָ֖֨רֶץ מִתַָּ֑֜חַת וַאֲשֶׁ֥֣ר בַּמַּ֖֣יִם ׀ ...
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Did Samuel sleep in the holy of holies at Shiloh?
When God calls Samuel it seems like he sleeping inside the Temple/Tabernacle were the ark of God was
1 Samuel 3:2-3 NASB
2 But it happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place (now his ...
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Is it possible to say where the lampstand was in the tabernacle?
The golden altar of incense was in front of the vail, behind which vail was the ark of the testimony, Exodus 30:6 and Exodus 40:5.
As to the lampstand (I prefer not to say 'candlestick' as it was an ...
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Were there two tabernacles in David's time?
During the time of David and Solomon, the original Tabernacle of the Lord made by Moses was located in Gibeon (ex. 1 Ch 16:39, 21:29). But in 2 Sam 6:17 and 1 Ch 16:1, it said David moved the ark into ...
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What does הֵיכַ֥ל mean in 1 Sam. 1:9?
Many translations including the JPS Tanakh translate הֵיכַ֥ל as temple, although the temple wasn't built until Solomon's time. Some translate it tabernacle although that is not a usual word for ...
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What part of the tabernacle did Hannah pray in 1 Samuel 1:1-20?
Herod's temple had court of women. Where did Hannah go to pray in the tabernacle in Shiloh?
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In Ex 40:12 is "sons" (heb. בָּנָ֔יו) exclusively masculine? If so, why?
Can the Hebrew בָּנָ֔יו In Ex 40:12 be translated as "children"--which includes males and females? For example, In the KJV בָּנָ֔יו is found 238 times and yet often it is translated as "...
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BDB under אֹ֣הֶל uses the structure of Ex. 39:32 to support מִשְׁכַּ֖ן and אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד refers to separate terms. How does Hebrew support this?
Reference ( אֹ֣הֶל, BDB, 1977 ed., p.14): וַתֵּ֕כֶל כָּל־עֲבֹדַ֕ת מִשְׁכַּ֖ן אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד , (Ex 39:32, BHSa). Ex 39:32; 40:2, 6, 29, cf. 1 Ch 6:17 (BDB) all have the same structure, and BDB ...
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Tent of meeting vs tabernacle
Exodus 33:7
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 ...
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Ezek. 41:18 KJV: Why only the two of the “cherubim's” faces in Messiah’s future earthly dwelling place, a man and a lion, rather than four?
Ezek. 41:18:KJV And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
Verses 19-25 reveal that one of these two faces ...
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What is the Veil mentioned in Hebrews 6:19?
What is the veil mentioned in
Hebrews 6:19 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure
and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
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Was not the veil to the Holy of ...
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What happened to the tabernacle once the temple (house) was built by Solomon?
In 2 Chronicles 5:1, it is written that King Solomon finally completed building “the house of Yahveh,” i.e., the temple:
1 So all the work that Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was ...
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At what three times were Israelites required to make a pilgrimage to the tabernacle?
If I understand the passages correctly, Exodus 23:14-17 lists the feast of unleavened bread, feast of firstfruits, and feast of ingathering (presumably booths). Exodus 34:22-24, however, lists the ...
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Did a priest ever die in the holy of holies? [closed]
I have heard plenty of times that, according to tradition, the people would tie a rope around the priest's ankle before he went into the holy of holies, thereby easing retrieval of the body in case ...
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How can the tabernacle have been erected in the second year?
Exodus 40:17 explicitly states that the tabernacle was erected on the first day of the first month of the second year.
Some silver was needed for the tabernacle. This silver was given by the numbered ...
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What did the almonds on the Menorah (Lamp of the Presence) represent in Exodus 37:20
Exodus 25:9
"According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the
tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall
make it.
Exodus 25:40
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Did God gift Bezalel and Oholiab immediately or previously in their lives?
Reading through Exodus 35 recently and came upon the passage where God says who he's chosen to design the tabernacle (Exodus 35:30-35). Bezalel and Oholiab are chosen, but something is off to me, did ...
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What happened to the poles once the Ark was placed in the Solomon's Temple?
The placement of the Ark in the Most Holy Place of Solomon's Temple is described in 1 Kings 8 (also 2 Chronicles 5) and makes reference to the poles which had been used to carry it:
For the ...
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What do women do when they're "ministering" in front of God's tabernacle?
Exodus 38:8 says that the bronze basin of the Tabernacle and its bronze stand was made from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
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What does Hebrews 9:4 mean by saying the Holy of Holies 'had' an altar of incense?
The altar of incense was outside the Holy of Holies but in some sense Hebrews seems to group it along with those things inside the Holy of Holies. What does this grouping mean? Why is the altar of ...
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How was the Tabernacle built?
Starting about three months ago (I don't remember exactly) I have tried to understand how the Tabernacle was built as described in Exodus 26. No matter how I try to fit the curtains more or less ...
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Temple in Psalm 138
The first verse of Psalm 138 is clearly stating David as author of the Psalm. In verse 2 it says:
I will bow down toward your holy temple
and will praise your name
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Why did the tabernacle use the colors blue, purple and scarlet?
I see a lot of blue in the tabernacle, and when moving it. For example:
Then they are to cover the curtain with a durable leather, spread a cloth of solid blue over that and put the poles in place.&...
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Are the rings for carrying the incense altar pure gold?
In Exodus we read about the structure of the altar for burning incense:
You shall make an altar for burning incense; make it of acacia wood. It shall be a cubit long and a cubit wide—it shall ...
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Did women contribute to the temple in exodus 35:22?
Finishing the response to the meta call for contradiction, here is the last contradiction/inconsistency I found in Genesis/Exodus/Leviticus.
In Exodus 35:22 we find the following passage.
And the ...
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What translation philosophies have caused such a wide variation in the translation of *tachash* skins?
In Exodus (e.g. 26:14), we learn one of the coverings for the tabernacle is to be made of "תחש" (tachash) skins. The translation of this term appears to be especially difficult or contentious as there ...
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