"On the first day of the first month set up the Tent of the LORD's presence.

So on the first day of the first month of the second year after they left Egypt, the Tent of the LORD's presence was set up.

Moses put down its bases, set up its frames, attached its crossbars, and put up its posts.

Then the Levite clan of Kohath would start out, carrying the sacred objects. By the time they arrived at the next camp, the Tent had been set up again.

After they had conquered the land, the entire community of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of the LORD's presence.

He serves as high priest in the Most Holy Place, that is, in the real tent which was put up by the Lord, not by human hands.

Make it and all its furnishings according to the plan that I will show you.

Take care to make them according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

Make the altar out of boards and leave it hollow, according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

"Our ancestors had the Tent of God's presence with them in the desert. It had been made as God had told Moses to make it, according to the pattern that Moses had been shown.

The work they do as priests is really only a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven. It is the same as it was with Moses. When he was about to build the Sacred Tent, God told him, "Be sure to make everything according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain."

Those things, which are copies of the heavenly originals, had to be purified in that way. But the heavenly things themselves require much better sacrifices.