8Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
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And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his presence among his people, so there they were to pay their devotions to him, not in the tabernacle itself (into that only the priests entered as God’s domestic servants), but in the court before the tabernacle, where, as common subjects, they attended. There an altar was ordered to be set up, to which they must bring their sacrifices, and on which…
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