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== Design ==
== Design ==
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=== The tent ===
: ''Bible record: {{Bible ref|book=Exodus|chap=26}}''
The Tabernacle proper was a tent of [[acacia]] wood (a symbol of [[human|man]], hard to work with and prone to have many knots<ref name=Brown>Brown, Alan B., MDiv, ThM; personal interview with [[User:TerryH]] on 8 December 2008</ref>) overlaid with [[gold]] (a metal of royalty or deity<ref name=Brown/>), standing 10 cubits high, 30 cubits long, and 10 cubits broad, covered with curtains of [[goat]] hair, [[sheep|ram]]'s skins dyed red and [[porpoise]] skins. (Indeed the English word ''skin'' derives from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''σκείν'' or ''skein'', which itself derives from the Hebrew ''shekan'' to dwell, of which ''mishkan'' is the present participle.<ref name=Brown/>) The sides of the tabernacle were not whole, but were composed of acacia boards, each ten cubits long and 1.5 cubits broad. Each board had five rings of gold spaced at regular intervals; five bars of acacia wood overlaid with gold and thrust through the rings held each of the three sides of the Tabernacle together. Each board had two protuberances, or tenons, at its base, and sockets of [[silver]] (a metal of redemption<ref name=Brown/>) held the boards together by their tenons. The tent used twenty boards on the south side, twenty on the north side, and six boards on the west side, with two corner boards added to finish the west side. The east side of the tent was open, and five pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold guarded that entrance. A screen of blue and purple and scarlet formed the east "wall" and hung on hooks of gold. Each pillar rested on a socket of brass (a metal of judgment<ref name=Brown/>).
The tent was covered first with ten curtains of blue, purple, and scarlet, decorated with cherubim. Each curtain was 28 cubits long and 4 cubits broad. Five curtains were joined together in each of two sets, and then the two sets were joined by fifty blue loops on each edge, with clasps of gold holding the loops. Next came a covering of goat hair, consisting of eleven curtains, each thirty cubits long and four cubits broad. The curtains were joined in sets of five and six, and the sixth curtain was doubled. The two sets were joined by fifty clasps of [[brass]] joining fifty pairs of loops. Last of all came a covering of red ram skins and a covering of porpoise skins.
The inside of the tent was divided into two compartments, the [[Holy Place]] and the [[Holy of Holies]]. The partition between the two was located ten cubits from the west wall and guarded by four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. A veil of blue and purple and scarlet, decorated with cherubim, hanging on four pillars, divided the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. The veil hung on hooks of gold, and each pillar rested on a socket of silver.
=== The courtyard ===
: ''Bible record: {{Bible ref|book=Exodus|chap=9-19}}''
The [[Tabernacle Courtyard]] surrounded this tent; it was 100 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 5 cubits high. Twenty pillars stood on the south side, twenty on the north, and ten pillars each on the east and west sides. Each pillar was made of acacia wood overlaid with gold, rested on a brass socket, and had a silver hook. On these hooks hung curtains of white linen, except for a twenty-cubit gate on the east side of the courtyard. Those curtains were of blue, purple, and scarlet. Each pillar had two guy ropes to secure it, one on the inside and the other on the outside, secured to a brass peg.
=== The furniture ===
The Tabernacle had the following articles of furniture: a [[Brass Altar]], a [[Brass Laver]], a seven-candle [[Lampstand]], the [[Table of Showbread]], an [[Altar of Incense]], and, of course, the [[Ark of the Covenant]] The ark was the one piece of furniture placed inside the Holy of Holies. The altar of incense rested in the Holy Place next to the veil dividing it from the Holy of Holies. The lampstand stood on the south side of the Holy Place, and the table of showbread to the north. The brass altar and brass laver rested outside the tent.
=== Incense and Oils ===
God also gave Moses specific recipes for a special oil for anointing the Tabernacle, and for the [[Incense|incense]] to burn on the altar of incense and in a brass censer before the ark of the covenant on the [[Day of Atonement]]. The recipe for the holy incense is given [[Incense#Biblical|here]]. The anointing oil was to be made from five hundred shekels of myrrh, two hundred fifty shekels each of cinnamon and fragrant cane, five hundred shekels of cassia, and a hin of [[olive]] oil. With this oil [[Moses]] was to anoint the tent, the ark of the covenant, and all the other articles of Tabernacle furniture, and also to anoint [[Aaron]] and his sons. ({{Bible ref|book=Exodus|chap=30|verses=22-33}})
The fuel for the lampstand was to be clear pressed olive oil. ({{Bible ref|book=Exodus|chap=27|verses=20-21}})
== Transport ==
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== See also ==
* [[Aaron]]
* [[High priest]]
* [[Nadab (son of Aaron)]]
* [[Abihu]]
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