Exodus 26:30

26:30 You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan ¹  that you were shown on the mountain.

Exodus 39:42-43

39:42 The Israelites did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses. 39:43 Moses inspected ²  all the work – and ³  they had done it just as the Lord had commanded – they had done it exactly – and Moses blessed them. ⁴ 

Numbers 8:4

8:4 This is how the lampstand was made: ⁵  It was beaten work in gold; ⁶  from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Numbers 8:1

Lighting the Lamps

8:1 ⁷ The Lord spoke to Moses:

Numbers 28:11

Monthly Offerings

28:11 “‘On the first day of each month ⁸  you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

Numbers 28:19

28:19 “‘But you must offer to the Lord an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 43:11-12

43:11 When they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its pattern, its exits and entrances, and its whole design – all its statutes, its entire design, and all its laws; write it all down in their sight, so that they may observe its entire design and all its statutes and do them.

43:12 “This is the law of the temple: The entire area on top of the mountain all around will be most holy. Indeed, this is the law of the temple.

Acts 7:44

7:44 Our ancestors ¹⁰  had the tabernacle ¹¹  of testimony in the wilderness, ¹²  just as God ¹³  who spoke to Moses ordered him ¹⁴  to make it according to the design he had seen.

Hebrews 8:5

8:5 The place where they serve is ¹⁵  a sketch ¹⁶  and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design ¹⁷  shown to you on the mountain.” ¹⁸ 

[26:30]  ¹ tn The noun is מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat), often translated “judgment” or “decision” in other contexts. In those settings it may reflect its basic idea of custom, which here would be reflected with a rendering of “prescribed norm” or “plan.”

[39:43]  ² tn Or “examined” (NASB, TEV); NCV “looked closely at.”

[39:43]  ³ tn The deictic particle draws attention to what he saw in such a way as to give the reader Moses’ point of view and a sense of his pleasure: “and behold, they…”

[39:43]  ⁴ sn The situation and wording in Exod 39:43 are reminiscent of Gen 1:28 and 31, with the motifs of blessing people and inspecting what has been made.

[8:4]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text literally has “and this is the work of the lampstand,” but that rendering does not convey the sense that it is describing how it was made.

[8:4]  ⁶ sn The idea is that it was all hammered from a single plate of gold.

[8:1]  ⁷ sn This chapter has three main sections to it: the lighting of the lamps (vv. 1-4), the separation of the Levites (vv. 5-22), and the work of the Levites (vv. 23-26). Many modern scholars assume that the chapter belongs to P and was added late. But the chapter reiterates some of the Mosaic material concerning the work of the Levites in the new sanctuary. For the chapter to make sense the historical setting must be accepted; if the historical setting is accepted, the chapter is necessary as part of that early legislation. For more reading, see M. Haran, “The Nature of the’ohel mo‘edh in the Pentateuchal Sources,” JSS 5 (1960): 50-65, and “The Priestly Image of the Tabernacle,” HUCA 36 (1965): 191-226; and C. L. Meyers, The Tabernacle Menorah.

[28:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “of your months.”

[28:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “unblemished they will be to you.” So also in v. 31.

[7:44]  ¹⁰ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[7:44]  ¹¹ tn Or “tent.”

[7:44]  ¹² tn Or “desert.”

[7:44]  ¹³ tn Grk “the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:44]  ¹⁴ tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

[8:5]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “who serve in,” referring to the Levitical priests, but focusing on the provisional and typological nature of the tabernacle in which they served.

[8:5]  ¹⁶ tn Or “prototype,” “outline.” The Greek word ὑπόδειγμα (Jupodeigma) does not mean “copy,” as it is often translated; it means “something to be copied,” a basis for imitation. BDAG 1037 s.v. 2 lists both Heb 8:5 and 9:23 under the second category of usage, “an indication of someth. that appears at a subsequent time,” emphasizing the temporal progression between the earthly and heavenly sanctuaries.

[8:5]  ¹⁷ tn The word τύπος (tupos) here has the meaning “an archetype serving as a model, type, pattern, model” (BDAG 1020 s.v. 6.a). This is in keeping with the horizontal imagery accepted for this verse (see sn on “sketch” earlier in the verse). Here Moses was shown the future heavenly sanctuary which, though it did not yet exist, became the outline for the earthly sanctuary.

[8:5]  ¹⁸ sn A quotation from Exod 25:40.