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

Place the curtain under the row of hooks in the roof of the Tent, and put behind the curtain the Covenant Box containing the two stone tablets. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

Place in it the Covenant Box containing the Ten Commandments and put the curtain in front of it.

Instead, put the Levites in charge of the Tent of my presence and all its equipment. They shall carry it and its equipment, serve in it, and set up their camp around it.

But the Levites shall camp around the Tent to guard it, so that no one may come near and cause my anger to strike the community of Israel."

On the day the Tent of the LORD's presence was set up, a cloud came and covered it. At night the cloud looked like fire.

On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year after the people left Egypt, the cloud over the Tent of the LORD's presence lifted,

Moses then put all the sticks in the Tent in front of the LORD's Covenant Box.

The next day, when Moses went into the Tent, he saw that Aaron's stick, representing the tribe of Levi, had sprouted. It had budded, blossomed, and produced ripe almonds!

Bring in your relatives, the tribe of Levi, to work with you and help you while you and your sons are serving at the Tent.

so he called in Jehoiada, their leader, and demanded, "Why haven't you seen to it that the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax which Moses, the servant of the LORD, required the people to pay for support of the Tent of the LORD's presence?"

"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.

God's temple in heaven was opened, and the Covenant Box was seen there. Then there were flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

The tents of Israel are beautiful,

So Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, "Lord, how good it is that we are here! If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

You claim that what you say is true; you claim you are pure in the sight of God.

Yes, you must humbly return to God and put an end to all the evil that is done in your house.

What a big help you are to me--- poor, weak man that I am!

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.

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.

But Christ has already come as the High Priest of the good things that are already here. The tent in which he serves is greater and more perfect; it is not a tent made by human hands, that is, it is not a part of this created world.

LORD, who may enter your Temple? Who may worship on Zion, your sacred hill?

For we know that when this tent we live in---our body here on earth---is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.

I think it only right for me to stir up your memory of these matters as long as I am still alive.

I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne: "Now God's home is with people! He will live with them, and they shall be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God.

These are the responsibilities of the Gershon clan in the Tent; they shall carry them out under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

and to register all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who were qualified to work in the Tent of the LORD's presence.

and the posts, bases, pegs, and ropes of the court around the Tent, with all the fittings used in setting them up. Each man will be responsible for carrying specific items.

This is what I gave them: silver - 25 tons; 100 silver utensils - 150 pounds; gold - 7,500 pounds; 20 gold bowls - 270 ounces; fine bronze bowls, equal in value to gold bowls

I said to them, "You are sacred to the LORD, the God of your ancestors, and so are all the silver and gold utensils brought to him as freewill offerings.

So the priests and the Levites took charge of the silver, the gold, and the utensils, to take them to the Temple in Jerusalem.

Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon; she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Amram had two sons, Aaron and Moses, and one daughter, Miriam. Aaron had four sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.