Bible Verses About Tent
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And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
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For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses.
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.
The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
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.
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
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.
And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
And the cloud of the Lord was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.
And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
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