100 Bible Verses About Tabernacle
Bible verses about Tabernacle
Delving into the scriptures about the Tabernacle unveils profound truths about God's desire for intimate connection with humanity. More than just a physical structure, the Tabernacle represents God's dwelling place among His people, a portable sanctuary symbolizing His presence and guidance. Studying these verses illuminates the meticulous detail with which God instructed its construction, each element pointing towards Christ and the ultimate sacrifice for our redemption. Understanding the Tabernacle deepens our appreciation for God's holiness, His provision for atonement, and the accessible relationship we now have through Jesus, our living Tabernacle. Let these verses draw you closer to the heart of God and His eternal plan.
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Numbers 1:53 (KJV)
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
Tabernacle Bible Verses: Exploring God's Dwelling Place
And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord: and it shall be thy part.
And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.
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.
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a trespass offering.
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the Lord; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord.
And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.
And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the Lord’s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
And Moses alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord.
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.
And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto them.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office,
It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
Exploring Bible verses related to the Tabernacle reveals a profound tapestry of God's dwelling with humanity. From detailed instructions for its construction in Exodus to its symbolic fulfillment in Jesus Christ, these passages highlight God's intentionality in creating a space for relationship. The Tabernacle served as a tangible representation of God's presence among the Israelites, a place of atonement, worship, and covenant renewal. Studying these verses encourages reflection on the accessibility we now have to God through Christ, who is our ultimate Tabernacle. We are called to be living tabernacles, temples of the Holy Spirit, reflecting God's glory in our lives and extending His grace to others. May these verses inspire us to cultivate intimacy with God, recognizing the sacredness of His presence within us and allowing it to transform our hearts and actions.