Bible Verses About The Tabernacle And Christ

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Core passage naming Christ and the greater tabernacle

A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Names the true tabernacle the Lord pitched

And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

Direct Bible language for the second veil and holy place

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Directly says Christ entered holy places made without hands

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

direct Bible text on God's tabernacle with men

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

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And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

Bible wording for the veil separating holy and most holy

And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:

Basic veil description from Exodus

And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,

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And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

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And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

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Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

Hebrews explicitly calls it a copy and shadow

Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

Stephen repeats that Moses made it by a seen pattern

And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

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And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.

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And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

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The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,

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Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

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And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:

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And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

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And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.

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The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,

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Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

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For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

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So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

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