On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.

And Moses raised up the tabernacle, set its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.

And the Kohathites set out, carrying the sanctuary. (The tabernacle had been prepared for them to come.)

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.

a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.

According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its articles, even so you shall do.

And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.

You shall make it hollow with boards; as it was shown you on the mountain, thus shall they make it.

Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,

who serve the copy and shadow of the Heavenly things, as Moses was divinely admonished when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.

Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the Heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.