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Tents were the primary form of habitation for the nomadic peoples of the ancient Near East, including the patriarchs of Israel. The use of tents is a significant theme throughout the Bible, symbolizing both the transient nature of human life and the presence of God among His people. Patriarchal Era The patriarchs, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, lived in tents as they journeyed through the land of Canaan. <a href="/genesis/12-8.htm">Genesis 12:8</a> describes Abraham pitching his tent between Bethel and Ai, signifying his nomadic lifestyle and obedience to God's call. The tent was not only a dwelling but also a place of worship and divine encounter. <a href="/genesis/18.htm">Genesis 18:1-2</a> recounts how the Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre as he sat at the entrance of his tent. The Tabernacle The most significant tent in the Bible is the Tabernacle, a portable sanctuary that served as the dwelling place of God among the Israelites during their wilderness wanderings. Detailed instructions for its construction are given in <a href="/bsb/exodus/25.htm">Exodus 25-31</a>. The Tabernacle was a tent of meeting where God communicated with Moses and the Israelites. <a href="/exodus/33-7.htm">Exodus 33:7</a> states, "Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting." Symbolism and Spiritual Lessons Tents in the Bible often symbolize the temporary nature of earthly life. <a href="/hebrews/11-9.htm">Hebrews 11:9-10</a> highlights the faith of Abraham, who "by faith made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise." This passage underscores the patriarchs' focus on the eternal city designed by God. The Apostle Paul uses the metaphor of a tent to describe the human body, emphasizing the transient nature of earthly existence and the hope of eternal life. In <a href="/2_corinthians/5.htm">2 Corinthians 5:1</a>, Paul writes, "Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands." Cultural and Historical Context In the ancient Near East, tents were typically made from goat hair or animal skins, providing shelter from the elements. They were easily dismantled and transported, reflecting the nomadic lifestyle of many biblical figures. The design and construction of tents varied, but they generally consisted of a central pole or poles, with fabric stretched over and secured by ropes and pegs. Conclusion The tent serves as a powerful biblical symbol of faith, obedience, and the presence of God. It reminds believers of the temporary nature of earthly life and the promise of eternal dwelling with God. Through the imagery of tents, the Bible communicates profound spiritual truths about the journey of faith and the hope of eternal life.<a name="smi" id="smi"></a><div class="vheading2">Smith's Bible Dictionary</div>TentAmong the leading characteristics of the nomad races, those two have always been numbered whose origin has been ascribed to Jabal the son of Lameth, (<a href="/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20</a>) viz., to be tent-dwellers and keepers of cattle. The same may be said of the forefathers of the Hebrew race; nor was it until the return into Canaan from Egypt that the Hebrews became inhabitants of cities. An Arab tent is called beit , "house;" its covering consists of stuff, about three quarters of a yard broad, made of black goat's-hair, (<a href="/songs/1-5.htm">Solomon 1:5</a>) laid parallel with the tent's length. This is sufficient to resist the heaviest rain. The tent-poles or columns are usually nine in number, placed in three groups; but many tents have only one pole, others two or three. The ropes which hold the tent in its place are fastened, not to the tent-cover itself, but to loops consisting of a leathern thong tied to the ends of a stick, round which is twisted a piece of old cloth, which is itself sewed to the tent-cover. The ends of the tent-ropes are fastened to short sticks or pins, which are driven into the ground with a mallet. (<a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Judges 4:21</a>) Round the back and sides of the tent runs a piece of stuff removable at pleasure to admit air. The tent is divided into two apartments, separated by a carpet partition drawn across the middle of the tent and fastened to the three middle posts. When the pasture near an encampment is exhausted, the tents are taken down, packed on camels and removed. (<a href="/genesis/26-17.htm">Genesis 26:17,22,25</a>; <a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12</a>) In choosing places for encampment, Arabs prefer the neighborhood of trees, for the sake of the shade and coolness which they afford. (<a href="/genesis/18-4.htm">Genesis 18:4,8</a>)<a name="amt" id="amt"></a><div class="vheading2">ATS Bible Dictionary</div>TentDwelling in tents was very general in ancient times among Eastern nations, <a href="/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20</a>; their way of life being pastoral, locomotion became necessary for pasturage, and dwellings adapted for such a life became indispensable, <a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12</a>. The patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob dwelt in tents, <a href="/genesis/18-1.htm">Genesis 18:1</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-9.htm">Hebrews 11:9</a>; and on the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, throughout their peregrinations until they obtained the promised land, and to some extent afterwards, they adopted the same kind of habitation. See <a href="../b/booths.htm">BOOTHS</a>. Hence the expression. "Every man to his tents, O Israel," etc., Jud 7:8 <a href="/2_samuel/20-1.htm">2 Samuel 20:1</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-21.htm">2 Kings 8:21</a>. Indeed, the people of the East, men, women, and children, lived very much in the open air, as is obvious from the New Testament narratives. And the same is true of them at the present day. The Midianites, the Philistines, the Syrains, the descendants of Ham, the Hagarites, and the Cushanites are mentioned in Scripture as living in tents. But the people most remarkable for this unsettled and wandering mode of life are the Arabs, who from the time of Ishmael to the present have continued the custom of dwelling in tents. Amid the revolutions which have transferred kingdoms from one possessor to another, these wandering tribes still dwell in tents, unsubdued and wild as was their progenitor. This kind of dwelling is not, however, confined to the Arabs, but is used throughout the continent of Asia. The word tent is formed from the Latin, "to stretch;" tents being usually made of canvas stretched out, and sustained by poles with cords secured to pegs driven into the ground. The "nail of the tent" with which Jael pierced the head of Sisera was such a tent-pin, Jud 4:21. See also <a href="/isaiah/33-20.htm">Isaiah 33:20</a> 40:22 54:2. The house of God, and heaven, are spoken of in Scripture as the tent or tabernacle of Jehovah, <a href="/psalms/15-1.htm">Psalm 15:1</a> 61:4 84:1 Heb 8:2:9:11; and the body as the tabernacle of the soul, taken down by death, <a href="/2_corinthians/5-1.htm">2 <a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1</a></a> <a href="/2_peter/1-13.htm">2 Peter 1:13</a>. Says Lord Lindsay, "There is something very melancholy in our morning flitting. The tentpins are plucked up, and in a few minutes a dozen holes, a heap or two of ashes, and the marks of the camels' knees in the sand, soon to be obliterated, are the only traces left of what has been for a while our home." "Often," says M-Cheyne, "we found ourselves shelterless before being fully dressed. What a type of the tent of our body! Ah, how often is it taken down before the soul is made meet for the inheritance of he saints in light." A tent is also put for its inmates, <a href="/habakkuk/3-7.htm">Habakkuk 3:7</a> <a href="/zechariah/12-7.htm">Zechariah 12:7</a>. Tents are of various colors; black, as tents of Kedar, <a href="/psalms/120-5.htm">Psalm 120:5</a> So 1:5; red, as of scarlet cloth; yellow, as of gold shining brilliantly; white, as of canvas. They are also of various shapes; some circular, others of an oblong figure, not unlike the bottom of a ship turned upside down. In Syria, the tents are generally made of cloth of goats' hair, woven by women, <a href="/exodus/35-26.htm">Exodus 35:26</a>. Those of the Arabs are of black goats' hair. Some other nations adopt the same kind, but it is not common. The Egyptian and Moorish inhabitants of Askalon are said to use white tents; and D-Arvieux mentions that the tent of an Arab emir he visited was distinguished from the rest by its being of white cloth. An Arab sheikh will have a number of tents, of himself, his family, servants, and visitors; as in patriarchal times Jacob had separate tents for himself, for Leah, Rachel, and their maids, <a href="/genesis/31-33.htm">Genesis 31:33</a> Jud 4:17. Usually, however, one tent suffices for a family; being divided, if large, into several apartments by curtains. <a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>(1.) Hebrews `ohel (<a href="/genesis/9-21.htm">Genesis 9:21</a>, 27). This word is used also of a dwelling or habitation (<a href="/1_kings/8-66.htm">1 Kings 8:66</a>; <a href="/isaiah/16-5.htm">Isaiah 16:5</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/4-20.htm">Jeremiah 4:20</a>), and of the temple (<a href="/ezekiel/41-1.htm">Ezek. 41:1</a>). When used of the tabernacle, as in <a href="/1_kings/1-39.htm">1 Kings 1:39</a>, it denotes the covering of goat's hair which was placed over the mishcan.(2.) Hebrews mishcan (Cant. 1:8), used also of a dwelling (<a href="/job/18-21.htm">Job 18:21</a>; <a href="/psalms/87-2.htm">Psalm 87:2</a>), the grave (<a href="/isaiah/22-16.htm">Isaiah 22:16</a>; Comp. <a href="/isaiah/14-18.htm">14:18</a>), the temple (<a href="/psalms/46-4.htm">Psalm 46:4</a>; <a href="/psalms/84-2.htm">84:2</a>; <a href="/psalms/132-5.htm">132:5</a>), and of the tabernacle (<a href="/exodus/25-9.htm">Exodus 25:9</a>; <a href="/exodus/26-1.htm">26:1</a>; <a href="/exodus/40-9.htm">40:9</a>; <a href="/numbers/1-50.htm">Numbers 1:50</a>, 53; <a href="/numbers/10-11.htm">10:11</a>). When distinguished from 'ohel, it denotes the twelve interior curtains which lay upon the framework of the tabernacle (q.v.).(3.) Hebrews kubbah (<a href="/numbers/25-8.htm">Numbers 25:8</a>), a dome-like tent devoted to the impure worship of Baal-peor.(4.) Hebrews succah (<a href="/2_samuel/11-11.htm">2 Samuel 11:11</a>), a tent or booth made of green boughs or branches (see <a href="/genesis/33-17.htm">Genesis 33:17</a>; <a href="/leviticus/23-34.htm">Leviticus 23:34</a>, 42; <a href="/psalms/18-11.htm">Psalm 18:11</a>; <a href="/jonah/4-5.htm">Jonah 4:5</a>; <a href="/isaiah/4-6.htm">Isaiah 4:6</a>; <a href="/nehemiah/8-15.htm">Nehemiah 8:15</a>-17, where the word is variously rendered).Jubal was "the father of such as dwell in tents" (<a href="/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20</a>). The patriarchs were "dwellers in tents" (<a href="/genesis/9-21.htm">Genesis 9:21</a>, 27; <a href="/genesis/12-8.htm">12:8</a>; <a href="/genesis/13-12.htm">13:12</a>; <a href="/genesis/26-17.htm">26:17</a>); and during their wilderness wanderings all Israel dwelt in tents (<a href="/exodus/16-16.htm">Exodus 16:16</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/33-18.htm">Deuteronomy 33:18</a>; <a href="/joshua/7-24.htm">Joshua 7:24</a>). Tents have always occupied a prominent place in Eastern life (<a href="/1_samuel/17-54.htm">1 Samuel 17:54</a>; <a href="/2_kings/7-7.htm">2 Kings 7:7</a>; <a href="/psalms/120-5.htm">Psalm 120:5</a>; Cant. 1:5). Paul the apostle's occupation was that of a tent-maker (<a href="/acts/18-3.htm">Acts 18:3</a>); i.e., perhaps a maker of tent cloth.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (n.) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.2. (n.) Attention; regard, care.3. (n.) Intention; design.4. (v. t.) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.5. (v. t.) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.6. (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.7. (n.) A probe for searching a wound.8. (n.) A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.9. (n.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.10. (v. i.) To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div>TENTtent ('ohel; skene; 'ohel is a derivative of 'ahal, "to be clear," "to shine"; hence, 'ohel, "to be conspicuous from a distance"): In the great stretches of uncultivated lands in the interior of Syria or Arabia, which probably have much the same aspect today as in Abraham's time, it is an easy matter to espy an encampment of roving Bedouin, "a nation.... that dwelleth without care.... that have neither gates nor bars" (<a href="/jeremiah/49-31.htm">Jeremiah 49:31</a>). The peaks of their black (compare <a href="/songs/1-5.htm">Songs 1:5</a>) goats' hair tents stand out in contrast against the lighter colors of the soil. There seems to be little doubt about the antiquity of the Arab tent, and one can rightly believe that-the dwelling-places of Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, and their descendants were made on the same pattern and of the same materials (<a href="/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20</a>; <a href="/genesis/9-27.htm">Genesis 9:27</a>; <a href="/genesis/12-8.htm">Genesis 12:8</a>; <a href="/genesis/13-3.htm">Genesis 13:3</a>; 18:06; 31:25, 30 <a href="/psalms/78-55.htm">Psalm 78:55</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-9.htm">Hebrews 11:9</a>, etc.). Long after the children of Israel had given up their tents for houses they continued to worship in tents (<a href="/2_samuel/7-1.htm">2 Samuel 7:1-6</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/1-3.htm">2 Chronicles 1:3, 4</a>) (for the use of tents in connection with religious observances see TABERNACLE). The Arab tents (called bait sha`r, "house of hair") are made of strips of black goats' hair cloth, sewed together into one large piece (see GOATS' HAIR; WEAVING). Poles are placed under this covering at intervals to hold it from the ground, and it is stretched over these poles by ropes of goats hair or hemp (compare <a href="/job/4-21.htm">Job 4:21</a> <a href="/isaiah/54-2.htm">Isaiah 54:2</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-20.htm">Jeremiah 10:20</a>) "fastened to hard-wood pins driven into the ground (<a href="/isaiah/54-2.htm">Isaiah 54:2</a> <a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Judges 4:21</a>; <a href="/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26</a>). A large wooden mallet for driving the pegs is part of the regular camp equipment (<a href="/judges/4-21.htm">Judges 4:21</a>; <a href="/judges/5-26.htm">Judges 5:26</a>). The sides (curtains) of the tent (<a href="/isaiah/54-2.htm">Isaiah 54:2</a>) are made of strips of goats hair cloth or from mats woven from split cane or rushes (see Illustration, p. 2948). Where more than one family occupies the same tent or the animals are provided with shelter under the same roof (compare <a href="/2_chronicles/14-15.htm">2 Chronicles 14:15</a>), curtains of the same materials mentioned above form the dividing walls. A corner of the matting where two ends meet is turned back to form the door of the tent (<a href="/genesis/18-1.htm">Genesis 18:1</a>). In the summer time the walls are mostly removed. New tents are not water-proof, and the condition of the interior after a heavy rain is not far from squalid. The tent material becomes matted by use, especially if wool has been woven into the fabric, and is then a better protection against the rain. It is the women's duty to pitch the tents. The poorer Arabs have no mats to cover the ground under their tents. Straw mats, goats' hair or woolen rugs (compare <a href="/judges/4-18.htm">Judges 4:18</a>), more or less elaborate as the taste and means of the family allow, are the usual coverings for the tent floor. The food supplies are usually kept in goats' hair bags, the liquids, as oil or milk products, in skins. One or two tinned copper cooking-vessels, a shallow tray of the same material, a coffee set consisting of roasting pan, mortar and pestle, boiling-pot and cups, make up the usual camp furniture. The more thrifty include bedding in their equipment, but this increases the difficulties of moving, since it might require more than the one animal, sometimes only a donkey, which carries all the earthly belongings of the family. A sheikh or chief has several tents, one for himself and guests, separate ones for his wives and female servants, and still others for his animals (compare <a href="/genesis/31-33.htm">Genesis 31:33</a>). Other Hebrew words translated "tent" are forms of chanah (<a href="/numbers/13-19.htm">Numbers 13:19</a> <a href="/1_samuel/17-53.htm">1 Samuel 17:53</a> <a href="/2_kings/7-16.htm">2 Kings 7:16</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/31-2.htm">2 Chronicles 31:2</a> <a href="/zechariah/14-15.htm">Zechariah 14:15</a>); cukkah (<a href="/2_samuel/11-11.htm">2 Samuel 11:11</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/22-12.htm">2 Samuel 22:12</a>); mishkenoth (<a href="/songs/1-8.htm">Songs 1:8</a>). Figurative: "Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there" typified utter desolation (<a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm">Isaiah 13:20</a>). "Enlarge the place of thy tent.... stretch forth the curtains.... lengthen thy cords.... strengthen thy stakes" prophesied an increase in numbers and prosperity of God's people (<a href="/isaiah/54-2.htm">Isaiah 54:2</a>; compare 33:20; <a href="/luke/16-9.htm">Luke 16:9</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/5-4.htm">2 Corinthians 5:4</a>). Tent cords plucked up denoted death. (<a href="/job/4-21.htm">Job 4:21</a>). <a href="/jeremiah/10-20.htm">Jeremiah 10:20</a> is a picture of a destroyed household as applied to Judah. Hezekiah in his sickness bewails that his dwelling (life) had been carried away as easily as a shepherd's tent is plucked up (<a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12</a>). Isaiah compared the heavens to a tent spread out (<a href="/isaiah/40-22.htm">Isaiah 40:22</a>). "They shall pitch their tents against her" i.e. they shall make war (<a href="/jeremiah/6-3.htm">Jeremiah 6:3</a>). James A. Patch<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/1981.htm">1981. episkenoo -- to tent upon, fig. abide</a> ... 1980b, 1981. episkenoo. 1982 . to tent upon, fig. abide. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: episkenoo Phonetic Spelling: (ep ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1981.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/4637.htm">4637. skenoo -- to have one's tent, dwell</a> ... to have one's tent, dwell. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: skenoo Phonetic Spelling: (skay-no'-o) Short Definition: I dwell as in a tent, encamp Definition ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4637.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/4636.htm">4636. skenos -- a tent, fig. for the body</a> ... 4635, 4636. skenos. 4637 . a tent, fig. ... Word Origin from skene Definition a tent, fig. for the body NASB Word Usage tent (2). tabernacle. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4636.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/4633.htm">4633. skene -- a tent</a> ... a tent. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: skene Phonetic Spelling: (skay-nay') Short Definition: a tent, tabernacle Definition: a tent, booth ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4633.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/4638.htm">4638. skenoma -- a tent</a> ... a tent. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: skenoma Phonetic Spelling: (skay'-no-mah) Short Definition: a dwelling Definition: a tent pitched, a ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4638.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/2681.htm">2681. kataskenoo -- to pitch one's tent, encamp, dwell</a> ... to pitch one's tent, encamp, dwell. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kataskenoo Phonetic Spelling: (kat-as-kay-no'-o) Short Definition: I encamp, tabernacle ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2681.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/4635.htm">4635. skenopoios -- making tents</a> ... making tents. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: skenopoios Phonetic Spelling: (skay-nop-oy-os') Short Definition: a tent-maker Definition: a tent ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4635.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/4078.htm">4078. pegnumi -- to make fast</a> ... to make fast. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: pegnumi Phonetic Spelling: (payg'-noo-mee) Short Definition: I pitch a tent Definition: I fasten, pitch a ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4078.htm - 6k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/167.htm">167. ahal -- to move a tent (from place to place)</a> ... 166, 167. ahal. 168 . to move a tent (from place to place). Transliteration: ahal Phonetic Spelling: (aw-hal') Short Definition: moved. ... /hebrew/167.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/168.htm">168. ohel -- a tent</a> ... 167, 168. ohel. 169 . a tent. Transliteration: ohel Phonetic Spelling: (o'-hel) Short Definition: tent. Word Origin from an unused ... /hebrew/168.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/6898.htm">6898. qubbah -- a large vaulted tent</a> ... 6897, 6898. qubbah. 6899 . a large vaulted tent. Transliteration: qubbah Phonetic Spelling: (koob-baw') Short Definition: tent. ... /hebrew/6898.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/172.htm">172. Oholibah -- "tent in her," a symbolic name for Jer.</a> ... 171, 172. Oholibah. 173 . "tent in her," a symbolic name for Jer. ... Word Origin from the same as ohel Definition "tent in her," a symbolic name for Jer. ... /hebrew/172.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/171.htm">171. Oholiab -- "father's tent," an assistant of Bezalel</a> ... 170, 171. Oholiab. 172 . "father's tent," an assistant of Bezalel. Transliteration: Oholiab Phonetic Spelling: (o''-hol-e-awb') Short Definition: Oholiab. ... /hebrew/171.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/170.htm">170. Oholah -- "she who has a tent," a symbolic name for Samaria</a> ... 169, 170. Oholah. 171 . "she who has a tent," a symbolic name for Samaria. Transliteration: Oholah Phonetic Spelling: (o-hol-aw') Short Definition: Oholah. ... /hebrew/170.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/173.htm">173. Oholibamah -- "tent of the high place," wife of Esau, also an ...</a> ... "tent of ... Word Origin from ohel and bamah Definition "tent of the high place," wife of Esau, also an Edomite leader NASB Word Usage Oholibamah (8). Aholibamah. ... /hebrew/173.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2334.htm">2334. Chavvoth Yair -- "tent villages of Jair," an area East of ...</a> ... "tent villages of Jair," an area East of the Jordan. Transliteration: Chavvoth Yair Phonetic Spelling: (khav-vothe' yaw-eer') Short Definition: Havvoth-jair. ... /hebrew/2334.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2333.htm">2333. chavvah -- a tent village</a> ... 2332, 2333. chavvah. 2334 . a tent village. Transliteration: chavvah Phonetic Spelling: (khav-vaw') Short Definition: towns. Word ... /hebrew/2333.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2583.htm">2583. chanah -- to decline, bend down, encamp</a> ... camped (3), Settling (1). abide in tents, camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch tent, rest in tent. A primitive root (compare ... /hebrew/2583.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/tent_and_building.htm">Tent and Building</a> ... CORINTHIANS (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) TENT AND BUILDING. 'For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved ... /.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/tent and building.htm<a href="/library/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/march_the_fifth_the_tent.htm">March the Fifth the Tent and the Building</a> ... MARCH The Fifth THE TENT AND THE BUILDING. ... At present we live in a tent""the earthly house of this tabernacle." And often the tent is very rickety. ... /.../jowett/my daily meditation for the circling year/march the fifth the tent.htm<a href="/library/pamphilius/the_life_of_constantine/chapter_lvi_how_he_took_bishops.htm">How He Took Bishops with Him on an Expedition against the Persians ...</a> ... Book IV. Chapter LVI."How he took Bishops with him on an Expedition against the Persians, and took with him a Tent in the Form of a Church. ... /.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter lvi how he took bishops.htm<a href="/library/gordon/quiet_talks_on_johns_gospel/our_tented_neighbour.htm">Our Tented Neighbour.</a> ... Listen: the Word, this wondrous One, became a man, one of ourselves, and pitched His tent in close amongst our tents.There's only a stretch of canvas between ... /.../gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/our tented neighbour.htm<a href="/library/kingston/the_seven_champions_of_christendom/chapter_twelve_the_tournament_at.htm">The Tournament at Constantinople.</a> ... was the Champion. His tent was of the colour of the celandine, and on the summit flamed a sun of wondrous brilliancy. His horse, an ... /.../the seven champions of christendom/chapter twelve the tournament at.htm<a href="/library/sherman/the_childrens_bible/the_story_of_the_tower.htm">The Story of the Tower of Babel</a> ... From there he removed to the hill near Bethel and pitched his tent with Bethel on one side and Ai on the other, and there too he built an altar to Jehovah and ... //christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the story of the tower.htm<a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_copies_of_things_in.htm">The Copies of Things in the Heavens</a> ... 'And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2. On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.3. And thou ... /.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the copies of things in.htm<a href="/library/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/january_the_second_the_larger.htm">January the Second the Larger Outlook</a> ... "And He brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven!" The tent was changed for the sky! ... Is it a thing of the tent or of the sky? ... /.../my daily meditation for the circling year/january the second the larger.htm<a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/a_battle_without_a_sword.htm">A Battle Without a Sword</a> ... a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley-bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote ... /.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a battle without a sword.htm<a href="/library/sheldon/in_his_steps/chapter_eight.htm">Chapter eight</a> ... The top of the evangelist's tent just showed over the buildings around the Rectangle. He looked out of his window every time he turned in his walk. ... //christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter eight.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/t/tent.htm">Tent (333 Occurrences)</a> ... tabernacle (qv). (3.) Hebrews kubbah (Numbers 25:8), a dome-like tent devoted to the impure worship of Baal-peor. (4.) Hebrews succah ... /t/tent.htm - 48k<a href="/topical/t/tent-door.htm">Tent-door (6 Occurrences)</a> Tent-door. Tent-curtain, Tent-door. Tent-dwelling . Multi-Version Concordance Tent-door (6 Occurrences). Genesis 18:1 And Jehovah ... /t/tent-door.htm - 8k<a href="/topical/t/tent-pin.htm">Tent-pin (4 Occurrences)</a> Tent-pin. Tent-makers, Tent-pin. Tent-pins . Multi-Version Concordance Tent-pin (4 Occurrences). Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife ... /t/tent-pin.htm - 7k<a href="/topical/t/tent-circle.htm">Tent-circle (45 Occurrences)</a> Tent-circle. Tent-chamber, Tent-circle. Tent-circles . Multi-Version Concordance Tent-circle (45 Occurrences). Exodus 33:7 Now it ... /t/tent-circle.htm - 20k<a href="/topical/t/tent-circles.htm">Tent-circles (4 Occurrences)</a> Tent-circles. Tent-circle, Tent-circles. Tent-cord . Multi-Version Concordance Tent-circles (4 Occurrences). Genesis 25:16 These ... /t/tent-circles.htm - 7k<a href="/topical/t/tent-pins.htm">Tent-pins (2 Occurrences)</a> Tent-pins. Tent-pin, Tent-pins. Tent-pitching . Multi-Version Concordance Tent-pins (2 Occurrences). Isaiah 33:20 Let your eyes ... /t/tent-pins.htm - 7k<a href="/topical/t/tent-maker.htm">Tent-maker (1 Occurrence)</a> Tent-maker. Tentmaker, Tent-maker. Tentmakers . Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia TENT-MAKER. tent'-mak-er (skenopoios): Mentioned ... /t/tent-maker.htm - 7k<a href="/topical/t/tent-cord.htm">Tent-cord (1 Occurrence)</a> Tent-cord. Tent-circles, Tent-cord. Tent-curtain . Multi-Version Concordance Tent-cord (1 Occurrence). Job 4:21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them ... /t/tent-cord.htm - 6k<a href="/topical/t/tent-makers.htm">Tent-makers (1 Occurrence)</a> Tent-makers. Tentmakers, Tent-makers. Tent-pin . Multi-Version Concordance Tent-makers (1 Occurrence). Acts 18:3 And ... /t/tent-makers.htm - 6k<a href="/topical/t/tent-chamber.htm">Tent-chamber (1 Occurrence)</a> Tent-chamber. Tent, Tent-chamber. Tent-circle . Multi-Version Concordance Tent-chamber (1 Occurrence). Numbers 25:8 and he went ... /t/tent-chamber.htm - 6k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/tent-of-meeting.html">What was the tent of meeting? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Jael-in-the-Bible.html">Who was Jael in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Sisera-in-the-Bible.html">Who was Sisera in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/tent.htm">Tent: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Tent (333 Occurrences)<a href="/acts/7-43.htm">Acts 7:43</a> Yes, you lifted up Moloch's tent and the Star of the God Rephan--the images which you made in order to worship them; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.' (WEY BBE DBY RSV)<a href="/acts/7-44.htm">Acts 7:44</a> "Our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony in the Desert, built as He who spoke to Moses had instructed him to make it in imitation of the model which he had seen. (WEY BBE DBY RSV)<a href="/acts/7-45.htm">Acts 7:45</a> That Tent was bequeathed to the next generation of our forefathers. Under Joshua they brought it with them when they were taking possession of the land of the Gentile nations, whom God drove out before them. So it continued till David's time. (WEY)<a href="/acts/7-46.htm">Acts 7:46</a> Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob. (BBE)<a href="/acts/15-16.htm">Acts 15:16</a> "'"Afterwards I will return, and will rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will set it up again; (WEY BBE NIV)<a href="/acts/18-3.htm">Acts 18:3</a> and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_corinthians/5-1.htm">2 Corinthians 5:1</a> For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. (WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_corinthians/5-4.htm">2 Corinthians 5:4</a> For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. (WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/hebrews/8-2.htm">Hebrews 8:2</a> As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man. (BBE RSV)<a href="/hebrews/8-5.htm">Hebrews 8:5</a> Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain. (BBE RSV)<a href="/hebrews/9-2.htm">Hebrews 9:2</a> For a sacred tent was constructed--the outer one, in which were the lamp and the table and the presented loaves; and this is called the Holy place. (WEY BBE RSV)<a href="/hebrews/9-3.htm">Hebrews 9:3</a> And behind the second veil was a sacred tent called the Holy of holies. (WEY RSV)<a href="/hebrews/9-6.htm">Hebrews 9:6</a> These arrangements having long been completed, the priests, when conducting the divine services, continually enter the outer tent. (WEY BBE RSV)<a href="/hebrews/9-8.htm">Hebrews 9:8</a> And the lesson which the Holy Spirit teaches is this--that the way into the true Holy place is not yet open so long as the outer tent still remains in existence. (WEY BBE RSV)<a href="/hebrews/9-11.htm">Hebrews 9:11</a> But Christ appeared as a High Priest of the blessings that are soon to come by means of the greater and more perfect Tent of worship, a tent which has not been built with hands--that is to say does not belong to this material creation-- (WEY BBE RSV)<a href="/hebrews/9-21.htm">Hebrews 9:21</a> And in the same way he also sprinkled blood upon the Tent of worship and upon all the vessels used in the ministry. (WEY BBE RSV)<a href="/hebrews/13-10.htm">Hebrews 13:10</a> We Christians have an altar from which the ministers of the Jewish Tent have no right to eat. (WEY BBE RSV)<a href="/2_peter/1-13.htm">2 Peter 1:13</a> I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you; (WEB BBE NIV)<a href="/2_peter/1-14.htm">2 Peter 1:14</a> knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. (WEB BBE)<a href="/revelation/7-15.htm">Revelation 7:15</a> For this reason they stand before the very throne of God, and render Him service, day after day and night after night, in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne will shelter them in His tent. (WEY BBE NIV)<a href="/revelation/13-6.htm">Revelation 13:6</a> And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven. (BBE)<a href="/revelation/15-5.htm">Revelation 15:5</a> After this, when the doors of the sanctuary of the tent of witness in Heaven were opened, I looked; (WEY BBE RSV)<a href="/revelation/21-3.htm">Revelation 21:3</a> And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/9-21.htm">Genesis 9:21</a> He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/12-8.htm">Genesis 12:8</a> He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/13-3.htm">Genesis 13:3</a> He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/13-12.htm">Genesis 13:12</a> Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/13-18.htm">Genesis 13:18</a> Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/18-1.htm">Genesis 18:1</a> Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/18-2.htm">Genesis 18:2</a> He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/18-6.htm">Genesis 18:6</a> Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/18-9.htm">Genesis 18:9</a> They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/18-10.htm">Genesis 18:10</a> He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/18-11.htm">Genesis 18:11</a> And Sarah is hearkening at the opening of the tent, which is behind him; (YLT)<a href="/genesis/24-67.htm">Genesis 24:67</a> Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/26-17.htm">Genesis 26:17</a> And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. (KJV BBE WBS)<a href="/genesis/26-25.htm">Genesis 26:25</a> He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-25.htm">Genesis 31:25</a> Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-33.htm">Genesis 31:33</a> Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/31-34.htm">Genesis 31:34</a> Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/32-13.htm">Genesis 32:13</a> Then he put up his tent there for the night; and from among his goods he took, as an offering for his brother Esau, (BBE)<a href="/genesis/33-18.htm">Genesis 33:18</a> And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city. (KJV BBE WBS)<a href="/genesis/33-19.htm">Genesis 33:19</a> He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/35-21.htm">Genesis 35:21</a> Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/16-16.htm">Exodus 16:16</a> This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/18-5.htm">Exodus 18:5</a> And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God. (BBE)<a href="/exodus/18-7.htm">Exodus 18:7</a> Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/26-7.htm">Exodus 26:7</a> And thou shalt make curtains of goats hair for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them. (See JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/26-9.htm">Exodus 26:9</a> You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/26-11.htm">Exodus 26:11</a> You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/26-12.htm">Exodus 26:12</a> The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/26-13.htm">Exodus 26:13</a> The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/26-14.htm">Exodus 26:14</a> You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/26-36.htm">Exodus 26:36</a> "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/27-19.htm">Exodus 27:19</a> All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass. (See NIV)<a href="/exodus/27-21.htm">Exodus 27:21</a> In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/28-43.htm">Exodus 28:43</a> They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/29-4.htm">Exodus 29:4</a> You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/29-10.htm">Exodus 29:10</a> "You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/29-11.htm">Exodus 29:11</a> You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/29-30.htm">Exodus 29:30</a> Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/29-32.htm">Exodus 29:32</a> Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/29-42.htm">Exodus 29:42</a> It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/29-43.htm">Exodus 29:43</a> And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and the Tent'shall be sanctified by my glory. (See JPS ASV BBE)<a href="/exodus/29-44.htm">Exodus 29:44</a> I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/30-16.htm">Exodus 30:16</a> You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls." (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/30-18.htm">Exodus 30:18</a> "You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/30-20.htm">Exodus 30:20</a> When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/30-26.htm">Exodus 30:26</a> You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/30-36.htm">Exodus 30:36</a> and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/31-7.htm">Exodus 31:7</a> the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/33-7.htm">Exodus 33:7</a> Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/33-8.htm">Exodus 33:8</a> It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/33-9.htm">Exodus 33:9</a> It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/33-10.htm">Exodus 33:10</a> All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/33-11.htm">Exodus 33:11</a> Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/35-11.htm">Exodus 35:11</a> The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets, (KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/35-21.htm">Exodus 35:21</a> They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/36-14.htm">Exodus 36:14</a> And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. (KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/36-18.htm">Exodus 36:18</a> He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/36-19.htm">Exodus 36:19</a> He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/36-37.htm">Exodus 36:37</a> He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/38-8.htm">Exodus 38:8</a> He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/38-30.htm">Exodus 38:30</a> With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar, (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/38-31.htm">Exodus 38:31</a> the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court. (See NIV)<a href="/exodus/39-32.htm">Exodus 39:32</a> Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/39-33.htm">Exodus 39:33</a> They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/39-38.htm">Exodus 39:38</a> the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent, (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/39-40.htm">Exodus 39:40</a> the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-2.htm">Exodus 40:2</a> "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-6.htm">Exodus 40:6</a> "You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-7.htm">Exodus 40:7</a> You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-12.htm">Exodus 40:12</a> "You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-19.htm">Exodus 40:19</a> He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-22.htm">Exodus 40:22</a> He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-24.htm">Exodus 40:24</a> He put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-26.htm">Exodus 40:26</a> He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-29.htm">Exodus 40:29</a> He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-30.htm">Exodus 40:30</a> He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/40-32.htm">Exodus 40:32</a> When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses. 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