Tabernacle Research Paper

The Tabernacle also known as the “Dwelling place”. It was a place for God on earth. The Tabernacle was first pleasant thing in the wilderness, one year after the Passover, when the Israelites were freed from their slavery in 1450 B.C. It was a mobile tent with portable furniture that the people traveled with and set up wherever they approached camp. It was the place where the leaders and people came together to worship and offer sacrifices. The Tabernacle, was the meeting place of God, with the children of Israel from the time to Egypt to the land of Canaan. God chose to meet his people, the Israelites there as well. The tabernacle would be in the center of the camp, and the 12 tribes of Israel would be able to set up their tents around it according to their tribe. It was later transformed by the Israelites on their journey through the wilderness. There are strict rules about “carrying” The Tabernacle. In Numbers it reads,”... Whenever the Tabernacle is moved, the levites will take it down and set it up
The Tabernacle was composed of different elements. In Exodus chapter 27, it is very detailed how God built this Tabernacle. He wanted yarn and lien for the ten curtains, with them being all the same sides. He wanted fifty gold clasps to use them for fasting the curtains together so that the tabernacle would be a unit as one. He also goat hair and a covering of ram skins, dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather to cover the top. He wanted frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. Each frame was to be be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide, with two projections set parallel to each other. For the entrance to the tent, he wanted a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, and had five bronze bases for