Exodus 36:3-4

36:3 and they received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to do ¹  the work for the service of the sanctuary, and they still continued to bring him a freewill offering each morning. ²  36:4 So all the skilled people who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came from the work ³  they were doing

Exodus 25:8

25:8 Let them make ⁴  for me a sanctuary, ⁵  so that I may live among them.

Numbers 7:9

7:9 But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried ⁶  on their shoulders, was their responsibility. ⁷ 

Hebrews 8:2

8:2 a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

¹ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive “to do it” comes after “sanctuary”; it makes a smoother rendering in English to move it forward, rather than reading “brought for the work.”

² tn Heb “in the morning, in the morning.”

³ tn Heb “a man, a man from his work”; or “each one from his work.”

⁴ tn The verb is a perfect with vav (ו) consecutive; it follows in the sequence initiated by the imperative in v. 2 and continues with the force of a command.

⁵ tn The word here is מִקְדּשׁ (miqdash), “a sanctuary” or “holy place”; cf. NLT “sacred residence.” The purpose of building it is to enable Yahweh to reside (וְשָׁכַנְתִּי, vÿshakhanti) in their midst. U. Cassuto reminds the reader that God did not need a place to dwell, but the Israelites needed a dwelling place for him, so that they would look to it and be reminded that he was in their midst (Exodus, 327).

⁶ tn The verb is the imperfect tense, but it describes their customary activity – they had to carry, they used to carry.

⁷ tn Heb “upon them,” meaning “their duty.”