Bible Strands
Exodus 26:30
So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Moses and the Israelite artisans during the detailed instructions for constructing the wilderness sanctuary. The command follows immediate specifications for gilding the structural frames and crossbars.
The words — הֲקֵמֹתָ (ha.ke.mo.Ta) means "you will set up," and מִשְׁפָּטוֹ (Mish.pa.T/o) translates to "its plan" or "according to its ordinance."
The thread — The text directly parallels Exodus 25:9 and Exodus 25:40, which both command building the sanctuary according to the mountain pattern. Hebrews 8:5 later interprets this repeated directive as proof that the earthly structure serves as a copy and shadow of the heavenly reality.
Why it lands — The verse explicitly requires the builders to erect the tabernacle exactly as the divine pattern dictates. It demands that craft execution remain strictly bound to revealed specification rather than human adaptation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
Cross-references
- Exodus 25:40 See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- Hebrews 8:5 The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
- Exodus 25:9 You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.
- Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
- Exodus 27:8 Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
- Exodus 40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
- Exodus 40:17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
- Numbers 10:21 Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.
- Joshua 18:1 Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
- Hebrews 8:2 and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.