The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”
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8Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.
9According to all that I am showing you– the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings– you must make it exactly so.
1The High Priest of a Better Covenant Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
2a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.
3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.
4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.
40Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.
44Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.
30You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan that you were shown on the mountain.
31“You are to make a special curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; it is to be made with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer.
1The Arrangement and Ritual of the Earthly Sanctuary Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.
2For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.
3And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.
4It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
5And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.
6So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.
11Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,
8You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it.
6But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.
7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.
8The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.
9This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.
23So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.
24For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.
1Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.
4This is how the lampstand was made: It was beaten work in gold; from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
5The Separation of the Levites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
5So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Meeting Tent and the whole congregation presented them and stood before the LORD.
6Then Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded you to do so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”
5Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.
17these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!
10We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.
15The Leading of the Lord On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle– the tent of the testimony– and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.
7the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the atonement lid that is on it, all the furnishings of the tent,
20and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”
21And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.
28We said,‘If in the future they say such a thing to us or to our descendants, we will reply,“See the model of the LORD’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’
20where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
13and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.
2who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house.
3For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!
19Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
10Anointing the Tabernacle and Aaron, and Clothing Aaron’s Sons Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them.
1The Making of the Priestly Garments From the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary; they made holy garments that were for Aaron, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
22After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.
21The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
15And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
12He gave him the blueprints of all he envisioned for the courts of the LORD’s temple, all the surrounding rooms, the storehouses of God’s temple, and the storehouses for the holy items.
21The Materials of the Construction This is the inventory of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which was counted by the order of Moses, being the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
1For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.