³⁰ Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.^(A)

⁵ They offer worship in a sanctuary that is^[a] a sketch and shadow of the heavenly one, just as Moses was warned when he was about to erect the tent.^[b] For, God^[c] said, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”^(A)

⁴⁰ And see that you make them according to the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.^(A)

⁹ In accordance with all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.^(A)

⁴⁴ “Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the wilderness, as God^[a] directed when he spoke to Moses, ordering him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.^(A)

Christ’s Sacrifice Takes Away Sin

²³ Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these.

² a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent^[a] that the Lord, and not any mortal, has set up.^(A)

The Territories of the Remaining Tribes

18 Then the whole congregation of the Israelites assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.^(A)

²¹ Then the Kohathites, who carried the holy things, set out, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.^(A)

¹⁷ In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up. ¹⁸ Moses set up the tabernacle; he laid its bases and set up its frames and put in its poles and raised up its pillars,