supported by twenty bronze posts in twenty bronze bases, with hooks and rods made of silver.

They made four posts of acacia wood to hold the curtain, covered them with gold, and fitted them with gold hooks. Then they made four silver bases to hold the posts.

The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.

If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life.

Then put in the Box the two stone tablets that I will give you, on which the commandments are written.

Then he put the Box in the Tent and hung up the curtain. In this way he screened off the Covenant Box, just as the LORD had commanded.

He said, "Tell your brother Aaron that only at the proper time is he to go behind the curtain into the Most Holy Place, because that is where I appear in a cloud above the lid on the Covenant Box. If he disobeys, he will be killed.

Then the priests carried the Covenant Box into the Temple and put it in the Most Holy Place, beneath the winged creatures.

As the priests were leaving the Temple, it was suddenly filled with a cloud

Then the priests carried the Covenant Box of the LORD into the Temple and put it in the Most Holy Place, beneath the winged creatures.

The ends of the poles could be seen by anyone standing directly in front of the Most Holy Place, but from nowhere else. (The poles are still there today.)

A tent was put up, the outer one, which was called the Holy Place. In it were the lampstand and the table with the bread offered to God.

Behind the second curtain was the tent called the Most Holy Place.