![]() ![]() ![]() The exact shape of the tabernacle of Moses is unclear. The rooms were separated by a veil, similar to the entry screen, embroidered with cherubim and hung from four gold-covered acacia posts by gold clasps. The tent was divided into two rooms: the Holy Place, where the table of showbread, the golden lampstand, and the altar of incense sat and the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was placed. The east side was comprised of five pillars covered with a screen similar to that for the courtyard. Gold rings held five bars that ran the length of the boards, holding them tight. Each board had two tenons, projections, which fit into silver sockets. The sides and back were made of gold-covered acacia boards, about twenty-eight inches wide and fifteen feet high. The actual tabernacle of Moses sat in the back of the courtyard (Exodus 26). The altar of burnt offering and the bronze laver that the priests purified themselves in sat in the courtyard. The gate, always facing east, was about thirty feet of blue, purple, and scarlet woven into a curtain of linen. The pillars were supported on the bottom by bronze sockets and possibly held in place with rope that attached to bronze rings. The court walls consisted of linen curtains attached by bronze hooks to a series of pillars. It consisted of an outer court, approximately seventy-five feet wide by one hundred and fifty feet long, with a fifteen-foot by forty-five-foot structure in the back (Exodus 27:9–19). The overall shape of the tabernacle of Moses followed traditional structures of the time. The word tabernacle is a translation of the Hebrew mishkan, which means “dwelling-place.” The Feast of Tabernacles commemorates this time of wandering before the Israelites entered the land of Canaan. The tabernacle of Moses was the temporary place of worship that the Israelites built according to God’s specifications while wandering the desert and used until King Solomon built a temple. ![]()
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