Exodus Chapter 25 & 26
The Lord told Moses to come up to the top of Mount Sinai again, so that He could give him two tablets of stone with the Ten Commandments written to them. So Moses went up, along with Joshua, his assistant.
Then a cloud came down and covered the mountain for six days. On the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from the cloud. Moses stayed there on the mountain for forty days and forty nights. The people at the bottom of the mountain saw the glory of the Lord like a bright, burning fire at the top.
The Lord told Moses that the people should build a tabernacle, or church, where they could worship Him. He showed Moses just how to do it; He even gave Moses a pattern of the building, so he would know just what it should look like.
It was to be very beautiful, with many beautiful things in it made of gold and silver and brass. There were to be curtains of fine-spun linen, with rich needle work embroidery. God told Moses to ask the people to bring gifts of gold and silver and everything else that was needed, and to give these gifts to the Lord.
God also commanded Moses to make an Ark to be placed inside the Tabernacle. This Ark was a beautiful gold box, it was made of wood and then covered inside and outside with pure gold.
God said that when the Ark was finished, Moses was to put into it the two stone tablets with the Ten Commandments written on them. The Ark was to have a cover of solid gold, with two gold angels standing on it, one at each end, facing each other with their wings spread out. This cover with the angels on it would be called the mercy seat.
There was to be a gold table, too, made of wood and covered with gold, to stand in the Tabernacle, and a gold lampstand to give the Tabernacle light.
God told Moses just how to construct the Tabernacle. It would be portable, easy to take apart and put together again, for the people were to carry it with them on their journey to the land of Canaan.
The sides of the Tabernacle were to be made of boards were to stand on end and be fastened together with a curtain that was spread over them as a roof. The door of the Tabernacle would be a curtain; and another beautiful curtain, called the veil, would hang across the inside of the Tabernacle, dividing it into rooms. In the inner room Moses was to place the Ark with the mercy seat. The gold table and the gold lampstand would go in the outer room.
The Lord said that Aaron and his sons would be God’s priests. They would sacrifice to God the animals brought to the Tabernacle by the people of Israel. Aaron would be the High Priest: he would be in charge, and his four sons would be his assistants.
Beautiful clothes were made for his head, with a place of gold fastened to the front of it, and these words written on it: “Holiness to the Lord.” This reminded Aaron that God commanded him to be Holy, and it reminded the people to honor Aaron as God’s High Priest.
Next to his skin Aaron wore a robe made of embroidered linen. Over the linen robe he wore a long, sleeveless blue coat. Hanging from the lower edge of this outer robe were decorations made to look like pomegranates, blue and purple, and scarlet. A pomegranate is a fruit something like an orange. Gold bells were hung between the pomegranates.
Over the blue robe, Aaron wore a many-colored vest, called an ephod.
Over the front of this vest was a square piece of richly embodied cloth with twelve different kinds of jewels on it, called the breastplate. These jewels were of the most beautiful kinds, including a ruby, a sapphire, and a diamond, each in a beautiful gold setting. So Aaron’s clothes were very splendid.
His four sons had special clothes, too; but theirs were not as beautiful as Aarons, because he alone was the High Priest.
Questions:
What is a Tabernacle? What were some of the things in it?
Why was it portable? {What does “portable” mean?}
What were the doors and walls made of?
Tell about Aarons clothes.
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