Exodus 25:8 KJV

Exodus · chapter 25 · verse 8

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.Exodus 25:8 · King James Version

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Exodus 25:8 in context

6Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

7Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

8And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

9According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

10And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

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Commentary

We may suppose that when Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and abode there so long, where the holy angels attended the shechinah, or divine Majesty, he saw and heard very glorious things relating to the upper world, but they were things which it was not lawful nor possible to utter;

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9

Cross references

Key words (Strong's)

sanctuarymiqdâsha consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary or asylumH4720 →
dwellshâkanto reside or permanently stayH7931 →
makeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →

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