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FEBRUARY 14
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Moses. He took the Testimony and put it into
the ark, inserted the poles through the rings
of the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the
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ark. And he brought the ark into the taber- 22:16 They pierced My hands and My feet.
nacle, hung up the veil of the covering, and The Hebrew text reads “like a lion,” i.e., these
partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the vicious attacking enemies, like animals, have
LORD had commanded Moses. torn me. Likely, a messianic prediction with
22 He put the table in the tabernacle of meet- reference to crucifixion (see Is. 53:5; Zech.
ing, on the north side of the tabernacle, out- 12:10).
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side the veil; and he set the bread in order
upon it before the LORD, as the LORD had com- 22:18 They divide…they cast. All 4 Gospel
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manded Moses. He put the lampstand in the writers appeal to this imagery in describing
tabernacle of meeting, across from the table, Christ’s crucifixion (Matt. 27:35; Mark 15:24;
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on the south side of the tabernacle; and he lit Luke 23:34; John 19:24).
the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had
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commanded Moses. He put the gold altar in
the tabernacle of meeting in front of the veil; 18 They divide My garments among them,
27 and he burned sweet incense on it, as the And for My clothing they cast lots.
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LORD had commanded Moses. He hung up
19 But You, O LORD, do not be far
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the screen at the door of the tabernacle. And
he put the altar of burnt offering before the from Me;
door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, O My Strength, hasten to
and offered upon it the burnt offering and the help Me!
20 Deliver Me from the sword,
grain offering, as the LORD had commanded
Moses. He set the laver between the taber- My precious life from the power
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nacle of meeting and the altar, and put water of the dog.
21 Save Me from the lion’s mouth
there for washing; and Moses, Aaron, and his
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sons would wash their hands and their feet And from the horns of the
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with water from it. Whenever they went into wild oxen!
the tabernacle of meeting, and when they You have answered Me.
came near the altar, they washed, as the LORD
had commanded Moses. And he raised up Proverbs 8:22–31
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the court all around the tabernacle and the 22 “The LORD possessed me at the
altar, and hung up the screen of the court beginning of His way,
gate. So Moses finished the work. Before His works of old.
34 Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of 23 I have been established from
meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the everlasting,
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tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter From the beginning, before there was
the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud ever an earth.
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rested above it, and the glory of the LORD When there were no depths
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filled the tabernacle. Whenever the cloud I was brought forth,
was taken up from above the tabernacle, the When there were no fountains
children of Israel would go onward in all their abounding with water.
journeys. But if the cloud was not taken up, 25 Before the mountains were
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then they did not journey till the day that it settled,
was taken up. For the cloud of the LORD was Before the hills, I was brought forth;
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above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over
it by night, in the sight of all the house of
Israel, throughout all their journeys.
8:27 circle on the face of the deep. The
Psalm 22:16–21 Hebrew word for circle indicates that the
16 For dogs have surrounded Me; earth is a globe; therefore the horizon is cir-
The congregation of the wicked has cular (see Is. 40:22). This “deep” that sur-
enclosed Me. rounds the earth was the original world
They pierced My hands and ocean that covered the surface of the earth
My feet; before it was fully formed and given life (cf.
17 I can count all My bones. Gen.1:2).
They look and stare at Me.
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