To begin with, for those who do not know, let's explain what a tabernacle is and what it is all about.

From Wikipedia:

Tabernacle (ancient Greek σκηνή, “tent, tent”; Hebrew מִשְכָּן‎, mishkan, “habitation, residence”, Hebrew אהל מועד‎, ohel moed, “tent of meeting, meeting”) - mainly used in the meaning of the camp temple of the Jews, the Tabernacle meeting, which was used, according to the Bible, as a place for offering sacrifices and storing the Ark of the Covenant before the construction of the Jerusalem temple, created strictly in the image of the Tabernacle.

When reading the Bible, each person has a number of questions and contradictions. In order to avoid these contradictions, the Bible (Old Testament) can be divided into 3 parts:

- Prophetic: in its purest form - these are the books of "Ezekiel" and "John the Evangelist"
- Literary and artistic: "Song of Solomon", "Job", etc.
- Historical and narrative: "Exodus", "Leviticus", "Kings", etc.

It is these records that are of exceptional interest. If certain events recorded in the hot pursuit of what happened are subjected to analysis, then as a result of the current picture, all contradictions disappear, both in the statements of the New Testament and between the three Middle Eastern creeds (Judaism, Christianity and Islam).
According to the Bible, Moses laid the foundation for its writing. He was an Israelite who grew up in the family of an Egyptian pharaoh. In the same family, he received a serious education. And it would most likely be assumed that at the time the Israelites left Egypt, he was the only one who knew writing. How else to explain the fact that "Genesis", "Exodus", "Leviticus", "Numbers" and "Deuteronomy" are called the Pentateuch of Moses. And in Deuteronomy, chapter 31, he bequeaths to read the records once every seven years. In the first book of "Genesis" he is reflected as a prophet with a fairly high cultural level for that time.

Once a small tribe of Israelites really took refuge in Egypt, and, having their own culture, additionally joined the Egyptian culture. And their leader Moses, by chance, joined the most. It was this knowledge, as well as prophetic maxims, that formed the basis of Genesis.

So, let's deal with the events that occur with Moses. Because of his patriotic nature, he kills an Egyptian who beat an Israelite. Fearing retribution, he flees from Egypt. Finding a home for himself, he marries and tends sheep. But this event is noticed not only by people, but also by someone whom the Jews call the "Lord of hosts." And after a while this someone finds Moses and establishes contact with him. Subordinating him to his will, he forces him to return to Egypt, show the Jewish elders the "Signs" and start a fight with the Pharaoh for the exit of the Jews from Egypt. In this struggle, someone brings the toads to the ground, destroys the livestock of the Egyptians, catches midges, locusts, inflammation on people, darkness on the sky. But the worst thing is the death of all the firstborn. How does this someone distinguish ordinary people and cattle from the original?

Further, having begged many treasures from the Egyptians, the Israelites leave Egypt, supposedly not for long, in order to make a sacrifice to the "Lord of hosts." But they are gone forever. Of course, such a treacherous act would anger anyone. The pharaoh gives chase and dies along with the army.
Since that time, the records constantly mention the cloud that accompanies them on their way. Moses, on behalf of God, gives the first instructions about the celebration of the Passover, circumcision and sacrifice of all the firstborn ("Exodus 13"). As a result of these instructions and campaigns in the deserts, the tribe of Israelites lost their diet - meat and bread. And God answered their first grumbling with quails and manna. Three months after leaving Egypt, the Israelites make a major stop in the desert. Here "Sabaoth" is trying to show its presence, in the form of what is available to human perception from its capabilities, fire, smoke, clouds, sound. And also through Moses gives the first nine prohibitions ("Exodus 20"). And chapters 21 to 23 mainly regulate the relationships within the tribe.
Then Moses ascends the mountain to God for 40 days. He receives a huge amount of information for action there. In Exodus, 8 chapters are devoted to her (from 24 to 31). Basically, these are instructions for making a tabernacle (a portable temple made of cloth) and an altar, priest's robes and the schedule of sacrifices.

It seems to me quite natural the reaction of the Israelites to the long absence of Moses and the production of the golden calf. But Moses himself returned from the mountain not the same as he went up there. And if he once killed an Egyptian, protecting a Jew, now, on his instructions, the Levites are killing about 3,000 fellow tribesmen. But in general, under normal conditions, a normal person without food and water should have died in 40 days. After that, he once again climbed the mountain for 40 days. Upon returning from it, he launched activities for the construction of the tabernacle, the ark, the altar and their installation.

Everything is going well and peacefully, but then the sons of Aron suddenly perish in the tabernacle where the ark is located ("Leviticus 10"). They are the first people who died in the tabernacle near the ark, that is, where the cloud descended ("Exodus 40"), where God should live. From touching the ark in the time of David, Oza dies, although he did nothing bad to anyone (“2 Kingdoms”, chapter 6). The inhabitants of Veusamis, looking into the ark - 50,070 people ("1 kingdoms", chapter 6). And in the time of Makovey, King Ptolemy Philopator decided to go to the temple - the holy of holies, where only the high priest in clothes had access, and almost died (3 book of "Makovey", chapter 2).
The four cases mentioned above took place near the ark, and only the pagan Philopator remained alive (maybe he was wearing armor). But these are not all stories about the death of people not at the hands of people, but from ...?
I will give a few more episodes from the "Bible" that tell about the unusual death of people.
This account is opened by the firstborn of Egypt and the army of the pharaoh, then the Israelites themselves. First, they were scouts who were sent to the land of Canaan ("Numbers 13, 14"), then the rebellious Levites, and with them all those dissatisfied with Moses - 14,700 people ("Numbers 16"), the Assyrian army - 185,000 people ("Isaiah 37").

There is one place in the Exodus chapter that is the key to unraveling these events with the incomprehensible death of people - this is a description of the clothes of the first high priest Aaron. They are a screen, but not of copper, as on the antenna cable, but of gold ("Exodus 28.39").

As you know, gold does not oxidize and has a high electrical conductivity, as a result of which the threads and individual parts of clothing, after being put on, united into a screen. Also on clothes the sound alarm system is provided also. At the end of the description, it says that Aron needs clothes so that he does not die when he enters the sanctuary.
As far as I know, now there are three technical means capable of harming health or killing a person with their radiation. These are atomic and neutron bombs, a laser and high-frequency radars. The question arises: is clothing made about 3000-4000 years ago capable of protecting the human body from any of the above emitters? I think you can say yes... but depending on the frequency and strength of the radiation, because Aron's clothes, in their design, are most reminiscent of personnel protection used on high-frequency radars, the difference is only in the metals used and the lack of grounding if the belt did not touch the ground. But on the other hand, there is a reverse signaling, that is, a sound signal for personnel on the radar, and on clothes for the emitter. Then another question arises: who dosed the radiation in such a way or whose radiation was such that the high priest could enter the sanctuary in clothes, do the necessary work and even run among the Israelites, saving them from defeat during the Levite revolt, remain alive, while other people died? And why did he die as soon as he took off his clothes ("Numbers 20").

The ancient Jews were simple and uncomplicated people and did not greatly embellish the events they witnessed. On this, I think everyone who has read the Old Testament will agree with me. In general, his style of presentation does not change much from Ch. "Exodus" to Ch. "Maccabee", i.e. from the time of the Exodus from Egypt to the second century BC. times before the advent of Jesus Christ. And the language of the New Testament is already a completely different language, although the Jews were the same. In my opinion, under the influence of Old Testament mythology, as well as due to the influence of Hellenic culture, the mentality of the Jewish people changed, because Moses bequeathed to read the book of the covenant once every seven years in front of all the people, and the elders tried to fulfill this. In addition, subsequent biblical prophets helped in creating the myth of the omnipotent Creator-Creator. This myth has been growing for over 1000 BC. Therefore, after the book of the prophet Isaiah, one can hardly find records in which the god of Hosts with his instructions would look as unattractive as in the time of Moses and Joshua or the prophet Elijah. Therefore, both the sayings of the prophets and the records of their sayings became more limited, so as not to compromise oneself out of fear of fellow tribesmen who were quick to reprisal, for very many of the Old Testament prophets were stoned. Therefore, in the New Testament no one talks about the behavior of God himself. If at the beginning of the Old Testament the phrases “and the Lord said”, “and the Lord smote”, “and the Lord stretched out his hand”, such phrases are not found towards the end of the testament. Well, in the New Testament, God is an invisibly present myth, which then comes to life in the Life of the Prophet Mohammed, again simple pagans, what they see is what they say.

And yet, thanks to the gradual change in the mentality of the Israelis, we have records of his activities. Even with a very approximate chronology, they stretch over more than 1000 years. So it turns out that according to the Old Testament, under different circumstances, more than 200 thousand people died at the hands of Jehovah over a period of more than 1000 years.

How to answer the questions: why were sacrifices made three times a day for more than 1,000 years, why did the menorah candle burn all this time, why did the high priests go first to the tabernacle, and then to the temple only in shielding clothes, and even with bells along the hem? To protect the human body from solar radiation, one layer of preferably light-colored clothing and some kind of hat on the head is enough - and there will be no sunburn and heat stroke. Chain mail, helmets and other armor were used to protect against sabers and arrows, bulletproof vests were used to protect against bullets, but to protect the health of housewives who are busy in the kitchen near the microwave oven, a screen is enough, which is also the body of this oven.
Well, on the atomic email. stations in case of an emergency there are special spacesuits to protect the human body from nuclear radiation.

From what type of radiation did the clothing of the main clergy protect them while working in the tabernacle, and later in the temple near the altar and the ark? At the moment, I know the following technical means that, with their radiation, can harm a person’s health or kill him: atomic or neutron bombs, a laser, an X-ray machine, and high-frequency radars. It is possible to protect oneself quite well from the effects of their radiation, and most of all, in devices, spacesuits, etc., protecting the human body from radiation, metals are used. They, in turn, best of all extinguish in themselves not penetrating X-rays or radiation from atomic bombs, but electromagnetic radiation, which, in turn, closing on the metal, induces eddy currents in it, which, at high power and a suitable frequency, can melt the metal, but nothing threatens the object behind the metal. Whatever the metal, from electromagnetic radiation is the best protection, especially gold. If Aaron’s clothes are hung next to the personal protective suits used on tropospheric radar stations, it will be clear to any more or less competent specialist that the clothes of the priests are not inferior in protective properties to the overalls: “And they broke the gold into sheets and pulled out the threads to weave them between the blue, purple, scarlet and linden threads, with skillful work” (Exodus 39).

The characteristics of the radiation of the tropospheric radar, at the moment is still a military secret. But elementary knowledge of physics is enough to understand that this protective agent, i.e. priests' overalls and clothes will be quite effective in the range of tens of MHz, since at a lower frequency more power is needed to harm the body, and at a higher frequency, if, for example, we take the radiation of a microwave oven, i.e. 2.4 GHz, then such radiation will hit the face and hands, because. the wavelength is very short, and the face and hands remain unprotected. As for power, it would not be difficult to determine it empirically, if these experiments did not threaten death for the subjects and molten precious metal.
With this alignment of frequencies, means and events, we remember the bear cub Winnie the Pooh, who said: “Why would you buzz if you are not a bee”? Why would priests enter the "holy of holies" only in shielding clothes if there is no life-threatening radiation there? And didn't the first-born of Egypt, the sons of Aaron, etc. perish from this radiation?

What did the Jews do on the day of Adar 23? Why is this day historic? 23 Adar 1311 B.C. e. The Mishkan, or Tabernacle of the Covenant, was first assembled. After this date, for seven days until the 1st of Nisan, the Mishkan was collected in the morning and dismantled in the evening. From the 1st Nisan, the Mishkan became an integral part of the service of the Almighty.

A few words about the tabernacle itself.

The Mishkan, or, as it is also called, the “Tent of Revelation,” the “Tabernacle of Meeting,” or (more prosaically) the “Temporary Temple,” is a rather simple grammatical form of the verb that, in the language of the Torah and its Creator, means “dwell,” in the sense of “dwell, dwell somewhere”: liShoKoN. So in Hebrew - the language in which the Almighty created the world - the root is Sh - X / K - N with the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bresidence, residence, “registration”, to use the term from Soviet passports.

The Mishkan was a large courtyard, fenced with linen curtains, in the western part of it there was a building, the walls of which consisted of wooden beams, a triple tent was spread over them: the lower roof was formed from panels woven from multi-colored wool and linen, the second from goat down, and the third, upper, from dressed skins. In front of this building in the courtyard stood a bronze altar, on which the fire that fell from heaven at the consecration of the Mishkan burned continuously, and sacrifices were offered. Inside the building, in its outer part, there were three sacred objects: a "golden altar" for burning incense, a table for special breads and a "menorah" - a seven-candle lamp. The entrances to the courtyard and the Mishkan building itself were covered by huge curtains, and inside the building itself a special curtain separated its outer part, “kodesh”, from the Holy of Holies, “kodesh-kodashim”. In the Holy of Holies stood the Ark of the Covenant, which contained the Tablets, and later also a vessel with "mana", which the Jews ate for 40 years in the wilderness, and a Torah scroll written by Moshe's hand.

The tabernacle, erected by Moses in one year, exactly as described by God, was a more than impressive sight. In the center of a huge courtyard, made of expensive fabrics hung from poles, there was a large tent, divided by a curtain into two parts. The first room was located opposite the entrance and was called the Holy Place.

It housed the Altar of burnt offering, the golden Menorah - a seven-candle sanctuary and a table with ritual bread, on which there were 12 loaves laid out in 2 rows of 6 pieces each. These "showbreads" symbolized the 12 tribes of Israel, that is, 12 generations, and were renewed once a week.

The second room, hidden by a curtain, was called the "Holy of Holies", inside which the Ark of the Covenant was kept, and above the Ark - a cover, in other words, a board of reconciliation (purification), supported and overshadowed by the Cherubim and called the Place of Forgiveness.

And this was used in Egypt.

There were 12 stones on Aaron's clothes, according to the number of "tribes of Israel", about which quite a lot has been said by experts in the Bible and stones. Bells were also sewn to the clothes. But since the bells on the clothes in which the high priest entered the temple were located along the hem, i.e. below the knees, the bells rang furiously only during the movement. And when he worked with his hands, while filling the menorah, wiping dust from the same ark, the bells were silent or tinkled softly, since the priest at that moment did not move and did not kick the hem of the robe with bells with his feet. Pretty practical idea, but who?

If you just follow the logic, then Moses told about how to make these clothes on behalf of the Israeli god Sabaoth. But what are these clothes for? The Bible has an unequivocal answer: “She will be on Aaron in service, so that a sound may be heard from him when he enters the sanctuary before the Lord, and when he goes out, lest he die” (Exodus 28).

If you think a little about the expediency of such an arrangement of bells, then it should be assumed that some invisible living being, resting in the tabernacle, able to hear the sound made by the bells, did not want to collide with the priest and, most likely, left the tabernacle or simply woke up and moved to the side when he approached. And since the perception system of a person, in this case a priest, could not determine the location of this creature in space and time, he could collide with him and harm him. Such a conclusion contradicts the “description of the world” of modern man, who considers himself to be part of the civilized world. Why have these bells been ringing for over 1000 years?

After the death of the sons of Aaron, none of the Israelites tried to enter the tabernacle out of idle curiosity. It may well be that many of them guessed that Aaron died for a reason, as soon as he took off his clothes.

A lot of time passed, and the tribe of Israel forgot a lot without supervision, and how the flock dispersed, as a result of which, during one of the battles, the ark fell to the Philistines (1 Samuel, 4). They toiled with the ark and decided to return it (1 Samuel, 5). And again, curiosity let the Israelites down: for the pleasure of looking into the ark, which stood on a stone in the field, the sons of Jehonen paid with their lives, the inhabitants of Veusamis - 50,070 people. After this and other incidents, the Israelis lost their curiosity for a long time.

Looking at the world before my eyes, I want to say to myself: That's all there is. Everything else is nonsense and fantasy of the mind overloaded with information. After all, over the millennia, the repeated translation of the description of clothes could be distorted in such a way that their “shielding” abilities are now seen behind this description.

Yes, but where does such forethought in actions come from? After all, the Israelites naively believed that they took away the gold according to the teaching of Moses for themselves, but in fact it turned out that their God, with their help, robbed Egypt for his own needs. The gold, copper, and silver most likely went into making the tabernacle, its utensils, and Aaron's garments. The number of metals listed above was quite impressive: gold - 29 talents, 730 shekels; silver - 100 talents, 775 shekels; copper - 70 talents and 2400 shekels (Exodus, 38). In part, this was the reason for the dissatisfaction of the Israelites with their leaders - Aron and Moses, which later resulted in a riot.

Another significant reason for discontent was the deterioration of the diet, since they roamed in the desert, then they did not have the opportunity to fish, sow and harvest. There was only one cattle left, which had to be sacrificed to God three souls a day. At this time, "manna from heaven" was sent to them, and one day they ate quails (Numbers, 11). Therefore, the Israelites more and more often began to recall to Moses the blessed days of their “heavy slavery” in Egypt, and God, in response to their grumbling, gradually exterminated (Numbers 11, 14, 16). Such a development of the scenario is quite standard, in the interaction of living intelligent beings, when one individual obsessively takes care of others and demands submission and gratitude for this, not suspecting that his wards are already tired and annoyed. In the end, this situation resulted in the largest Israeli uprising - an event whose scenario could not have happened without the use of two technical means: the first is the aforementioned Aaron's clothes ("screen") and the second is "smoke", a means of practicing magicians, shamans and other clergymen.

“And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: Leave this company, and I will destroy them in an instant. But they fell on their faces. And Moses said to Aron: “Take the censer and put in it fire from the altar and pour incense, and bring it quickly to the community and intercede for them, for wrath has come out from the Lord, and defeat has begun. And Aron took it, as Moses said, and fled into the midst of society, and now the defeat began among the people. And he put down smoking. And he protected the people. He stood between the dead and the living, and the defeat ceased. And 14,700 people died from the defeat” (Numbers 16).

In this story, it is clear to any competent electrical engineer that the frequency and strength of radiation very similar to electromagnetic radiation was such that it killed people, but at the same time did not exceed the protective properties of the “screen” worn by Aaron. Well, as for the "smoke", then its properties and methods of application will be discussed later.

So who is he, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc., who lit the altars to the prophets, Moses and Elijah, who burned 250 Levites? I will take the liberty of suggesting that more than 3,000 years ago man encountered another intelligent form of life. As Carl Gustav Jung says in his letter to Morton: "The stumbling block is Yahweh's lack of human morality." Indeed, when you read about Yahweh, you see actions that are far from human morality.

Many scientists of the last century dreamed of such a contact with aliens, but it turned out that due to the crazy difference in perception systems (her and human), this other intelligent life form had long taken control of the development of human relationships and the foundations of the way of life in the place of its “habitat” (the Middle East). And what came out of it is, basically, the writing of 3 books, which can be called primary sources, i.e. Bible, Gospel and Quran. These books, to one degree or another, influenced almost 2/3 of the world's population, although this form of life provides personal support to believers only at its location at a given time. Its very location (i.e., this intelligent form of life) is the Middle East, the neighborhoods of the cities of Jerusalem, Mecca, Medina, etc.

According to the texts of the Bible, Moses and his fellow tribesmen, during their wanderings in the wilderness, met with God, who descended from heaven to the top of Mount Sinai in fire and smoke:

“Mount Sinai was all smoking because the Lord descended on it in fire; and smoke from her ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently; and the sound of the trumpet became stronger and stronger” (Exodus, 19, 18, 19).

Moses ascended to the top of the mountain, met God and stayed with him for forty days and forty nights. There he received and memorized by heart detailed instructions on how to build and equip a special mobile collapsible temple - a tabernacle, with the help of which Moses had the opportunity to periodically maintain with God, in modern technical language, two-way visual-auditory communication. The text emphasizes several times that models of the tabernacle and all its components were shown to Moses on the mountain: “Everything [do] as I show you, and the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its vessels; do so” (Exodus 25:9).

In addition, Moses was also given ready-made parts, which, apparently, could not be made using primitive Jewish technology. These details were the so-called "stone tablets".
Most importantly, the biblical texts give a very detailed, scrupulous description of the tabernacle, the dimensions of its components, the order of assembly and disassembly, maintenance rules, “safety measures”, etc. The nature of the presentation indicates that this information was memorized and passed on to the initiates, and only after a long time were they written down and included in the text of the Bible. With this nature of the transfer of knowledge, no deviations from the text were allowed, it was impossible to change a single word, although the true meaning of what was said was not clear to the speaker. By the way, scientists are constantly faced with such a way of transferring knowledge, when the accuracy of the transmitted information becomes a guarantee of its transformation into a religious ritual, any deviation from which, even in the smallest details, was not allowed.
According to biblical information, the tabernacle mounted on the ground was a structure strictly oriented to the cardinal points, rectangular in plan, measuring 28x40 cubits.

Its plan is shown in the figure:

This structure consisted of vertical closely spaced beams, connected at the top by horizontal poles. This is what the "technical assignment received by Moses on Mount Sinai" looked like:

“... Make the bars for the tabernacle of shittim wood so that they stand: ten cubits long (make) a bar and a cubit and a half wide for each bar ... Overlay the bars with gold, and make the rings for inserting the poles of gold, and overlay the poles with gold. ("Exodus", 26, 15-29)

There were 20 such bars on the southern and northern sides of the tabernacle, and 8 on the western side. They were fastened with poles made of the same shittim tree, overlaid with gold. Each bar in the lower part had two golden spikes inserted into sockets on two silver bases. Inside the tabernacle was divided into two parts by a partition of four pillars overlaid with gold, each standing on one silver base. A cloth curtain was hung on the partition, dividing the tabernacle into two rooms - front and back, the so-called "holy of holies", where only the chief priest had the right to enter. Apparently, the partition also served as an additional support for the roof, which consisted of a cloth panel and two layers of leather. All the walls of the tabernacle were also covered with curtains of cloth. Finally, on the eastern side, through which the priest-priest entered the tabernacle, five pillars were set up, again overlaid with gold, on five cast copper sockets.
As you can see, it was clearly stipulated: how many pillars to install on each side of the tabernacle, what material to make their bases from, etc.

The only source of illumination inside the tabernacle, and even then in the front of the room, and not in the "holy of holies", was a lamp of seven lamps with olive oil. Probably, such twilight was originally planned, because it was in the “holy of holies” in the “fiery cloud” that the image of God appeared, from which Moses received orders.
The tabernacle was also enclosed by a concentric rectangular fence measuring 50x100 meters around the perimeter, consisting of 60 pillars half as high as the pillars of the tabernacle itself, covered with silver and standing on copper bases.
The posts of this fence stood 3.5 cubits apart, while the posts of the tabernacle itself were only 0.5 cubits apart. They were also covered with cloth.

From the east, the so-called entrance adjoined the courtyard of the tabernacle - a rectangle formed from six pillars 15 cubits high from the north, and four 20 cubits high from the east. The entrance pillars were also made of shittim wood, overlaid with silver and stood on copper footboards, they were also hung with cloth curtains.

When you think about this text, you are amazed at the number and size of the details that made up this temple, which, given the gold lining, must have had a solid weight. Strange building gigantism and luxury, at first glance, unacceptable for a poor nomadic tribe, who sometimes did not have anything to eat.

A few more images of the tabernacle:

And this is the image of those very mysterious tablets:

The design of the tabernacle also looks strange. This is not a rigid structure such as a yurt frame or a tent, but a relatively weakly stable fence made of heavy vertical elements.
Here we meet with the same paradox that can be encountered in the study of megaliths: the gigantism of the structure, as if not arising from rational needs. Only if we start from the assumption that the tabernacle was a temple and nothing else does it not follow. However, even a cursory glance at this building is enough to doubt whether this is a temple? Or rather, is it just a temple? The tabernacle looks suspiciously rational, correct, and its details are striking in their strict rhythmic subordination. The lampstand is the only object from the Moses tabernacle whose image has survived to our time.

He looked like this:

The table, the altar for incense and the lamp were carried with the help of poles overlaid with gold, which were put into special gold rings attached to these objects. In the courtyard of the tabernacle, in front of its entrance, there was a washbasin for washing the hands and feet of the priests and an altar of burnt offering, which was a box of sittim, overlaid with sheet copper. In its front part, “horns” protruded at the corners, on which a single lattice mentioned in the text was put on. A fire was kindled on the altar, and the carcasses of sacrificial animals (rams, calves, etc.) were placed on the grate above it, burning which Moses performed a special ritual of obtaining a “fragrance” that was pleasing to the Lord. In the back, unlit part of the tabernacle, the "holy of holies", was its most sacred object - the "ark of revelation."

In this room, according to the text, God appeared during communication with Moses:

“When Moses entered the tabernacle of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard a voice speaking to him from the cover that was over the ark of revelation between two cherubim, and he spoke to him” (Numbers, 7, 89).
“And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend…” (Exodus 33:11).

According to the descriptions, the ark of revelation was a box made of shittim wood, overlaid with gold on the outside and inside, with a crown in the upper part. The dimensions of the box are 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cubits. The top of the ark was covered with a special golden lid with two figurines of cherubs.

“... Make two cherubs out of gold: make them of chased work at both ends of the lid; make one cherub on one side, and another cherub on the other side; protruding from the cover, make cherubs on both edges of it; And there will be cherubim with their wings spread upward, covering the lid with their wings, and their faces will be towards one another: the faces of the cherubim will be towards the lid. And put a lid on the top of the ark, and in the ark put the revelation that I gave you; there I will open myself to you and speak to you over the lid, in the midst of the two cherubim that are over the ark of revelation…”
(Exodus, 25, 18-22).

Here's what it all looked like:

Now let's try to look at all this information through the eyes of a modern engineer. Most of all, the tabernacle (a structure of rationally arranged vertical metal, or rather, metal-coated, pillars) resembles a radio-technical device such as an antenna array. Generally speaking, any set of metal objects can serve as a device that reflects radio waves. But in this case, this is not just a random set of metal objects, but an ordered system that provides the most effective action. First of all, we note that the structure under consideration (the tabernacle) has a significant conductive surface and could be used as a passive reflective system for meter-range radio waves. This is evidenced by the following data.

All dimensions of the building, the long sides of the tabernacle and its fence, the distance between the tabernacle and the fence, the height of the pillars, etc.) are a multiple of the length of 10 cubits. In other words, this whole system was an effective reflector for radio waves with a wavelength l equal to 20 cubits (1/2l - 10 cubits). If we translate this into meters using the values ​​of the cubit, then the wavelength, respectively, will be in the range from 8 to 12 meters, i.e. within the meter range. We believe that it was close to 12 meters. The bars of the tabernacle 10 cubits high could play the role of semiconductor vibrators, shorted at the top by conductive poles, the bars of the fence of the tabernacle 5 cubits high could play the role of quarter-wave vibrators, open from above, the bars of the entrance to the courtyard, respectively, one- and one-and-a-half-wave vibrators, open from above. All these elements interact most effectively with a wave of 20 cubits.

It is known that dry soil (desert sand in this case) is a conductor in the radio frequency range under consideration, and for effective reflection of a wave, it is necessary to have a conductive surface in which vertical slots are allowed. This is what is realized in the design of the tabernacle.
It is also very significant that, with the considered parameters of the antenna array, the error in the installation of its elements (bars) should not have exceeded 25-30 cm, which could well have been provided by the service personnel - priests. If the tabernacle was designed for a range of shorter radio waves (for example, centimeter), then the details of the device could not be assembled by the priests of Moses with the necessary accuracy. We also note that modern long-range radar stations operating in the meter range are little affected by atmospheric interference (lightning discharges) and precipitation. snow, rain) compared to the decimeter and centimeter range.

So, the tabernacle could be a passive reflecting grid, which is not contradicted by its design. But it could be at the same time another radio engineering device, namely, part of a transceiver for operation in the radio range. Calculations show that at a radio frequency half that of the reflected one (i.e. 10 cubits), it could serve as a directing antenna for the irradiator located in another place where the ark was installed in the tabernacle. At the same time, the western wall of the tabernacle could play the role of a reflector.

The fact that the tabernacle served Moses as a means of two-way communication with God is mentioned many times in the text. For communication, Moses at a certain time had to go inside “the holy of holies stand near the ark, over the lid of which, between the figures of two cherubs, an image of God appeared and his voice was heard.

The most important detail of the entire biblical radio engineering device was, undoubtedly, the stone tablets, two tables of stone, which Moses received in finished form from the hands of God and put into the ark. All other details of the tabernacle were made by the masters of Moses according to the instructions received, but they could not make the tablets themselves.
It is amazing that the main shrine of the temple, kept in a chest of precious metal, was made, as the Bible says, from a simple stone. The logical conclusion from this may be the following: the substance from which these tablets were made only seemed like a stone to nomadic pastoralists. In their poor vocabulary, there simply were no other terms for this substance.
Judging by the text, few other than Moses saw these tablets, but for those who did see them, it ended very sadly. We assume that Moses received from the hands of God (a representative of a highly developed extraterrestrial civilization) two blocks of a complex device such as a radio circuit, assembled from crystalline elements (“stone”). The order of inserting the blocks into the ark, perhaps, was decided in a peculiar way, namely, it was determined by the text of the 10 commandments printed on them (recall that it was written on the tablets by the hand of God "on both sides).
Perhaps the letters themselves or the gaps between them served as contacts to connect both blocks together. Judging by the text, in the same tablets there was an energy source that ensured the possibility of long-term operation of the entire transceiver. Based on our current level of knowledge, it can be assumed that an isotope battery could be such a source.

Let's take another look at these tables. Why were there 2? Didn't you ask this question?

The device was switched on when both of its blocks were placed inside the ark (it is possible that the transmitter was switched on remotely).
Based on the current level of knowledge, it can be argued that in a box as large as the Ark of the Covenant, it is quite possible to place a compact transceiver and an isotope power source. True, this device would have to operate in a pulsed mode (periodic accumulation of energy and relatively short-term operation in the receive-transmit mode - we will return to this issue later. Remember this point.). This does not contradict the text. A very powerful isotopic energy source in this device could not be for the reason that in this case it would become dangerous for the operating personnel. Hence the need to work in a pulsed mode.

Nevertheless, it follows from the text that the tabernacle, and especially the ark, were extremely dangerous to people at certain points. One of the biblical texts, for example, tells how during the war with the Philistines the army of the Israelites was defeated, and their shrine - the ark of the covenant - fell into the hands of enemies. As a valuable military trophy, the ark was brought by the Philistines to the city of Azot. This led to a lot of trouble:

“And the hand of the Lord was heavy over the Azotians, and He struck them and punished them with painful growths, in Azot and its surroundings ... And the Azotians saw this, and said: let the ark of the God of Israel not remain with us, for His hand is heavy ... And they said: let the ark ... pass to Gath. After they sent him, the hand of the Lord was on the city, a very great horror, and the Lord struck the inhabitants of the city, from small to large, and growths appeared on them. And they sent the ark of God to Ascalon; and when the ark of God came to Ascalon, the Ascalonites cried out, saying: They brought to us the ark of the God of Israel, to kill us and our people ... Deadly terror was in the whole city; the hand of God weighed heavily on them... And those who did not die were smitten with growths, so that the cry of the city ascended to heaven" (I Kings 5:6-12)

The Philistines were punished for their curiosity: they looked inside the ark by lifting the protective cover. When in the end it was decided to return the dangerous trophy back to the Israelites, they were overjoyed when they saw their shrine. The ark was set on a large stone, a solemn sacrifice was arranged. But the Israelites' joy was premature:

“... He struck down the inhabitants of Bethshemesh because they looked into the ark of the Lord (highlighted by us - F., Sh.), and killed fifty thousand seventy people from the people; the people wept, for the Lord struck the people with a great defeat” (1 Kings 6:19).

Elsewhere in the Bible, an event is told about an event that occurred during the transportation of the ark to the capital of King David:

“And they put the ark of God on a new chariot, and brought it out of the house of Aminadab… And the sons of Aminadab, Uzzah and Ahio, were driving a new chariot… And when they reached the threshing floor of Nakhon, Uzzah stretched out his hand to the ark of God [to hold it], and took hold of it, for the oxen tilted it. But the Lord was angry with Uzzah, and God struck him there for his boldness, and he died there by the ark of God” (2 Kings 6:3-7)

Why did so many people die because of this tabernacle? What is the cause of so many unexplained deaths? We will try to answer these and other questions.

Sudden death from touching the ark is very similar to the result of an electric shock. But why didn't Moses die, who carried the tablets in his hands, descending from Mount Sinai? We have already suggested that the tablets could be turned on and become dangerous remotely, that is, by a special signal from outside. In addition, it can be assumed that the teachers of Moses tried to protect him before this campaign with the tablets in their hands. They themselves, judging by the text, well understood the danger of the described device. This is evidenced by the numerous instructions that Moses received on the mountain and subsequently received more than once during communication sessions. These security measures included the following provisions:

First, a very limited circle of people was allowed into the tabernacle. From the text it follows that only the Levites served the tabernacle, i.e. priests. In turn, they were divided into several categories depending on the “degree of tolerance”. Levites of the lowest category were responsible for the external protection of the tabernacle, others were responsible for assembling and disassembling the temple, still others for packing sacred objects, fourth for their transportation, etc. The ark of the covenant was ordered to be carried on the hands with the help of poles, after wrapping it in a special woolen (possibly insulating) fabric. Only Moses' brother Aaron and a limited number of his sons and close relatives were allowed to work inside the tabernacle - sacrifices, lighting a lamp and other ceremonies. Inside the "holy of holies" had the right to enter, and even then not always, only one Moses. He also had the exclusive right to communicate with God.

Secondly, the design of the tabernacle itself made it difficult for an outsider to enter the danger zone. Let us recall how close the pillars of the Tabernacle stood to each other (about 30 cm): it was hardly possible to easily squeeze through these gaps, especially since they were also covered with a veil of dense fabric. In addition, the entrance and even approaching the tabernacle was forbidden by the strictest taboos, the Levites constantly guarded the tabernacle, then there was a fence around the tabernacle - the courtyard of the tabernacle, and around this zone there was also guard.

All this richly metallic clothing, which the Levite put on when entering the tabernacle, resembles “Maxwell's cage, well known to modern physicists. A person inside a grounded metal cage can, without harming himself, be in an electric field of very high intensity. As J. Michel and R. Rickard note, if a metal comb on the head, a metal brooch on the chest are placed on a cloth mannequin, a metal belt girds the mannequin, then the electric discharge of lightning will pass through these metal objects without touching the mannequin. But after all, it was precisely such metal parts that contained the protective clothing of Moses and his assistants, and the “comb” on the head (diadem), and the “brooch” on the chest (breastplate), and a metal belt.

However, even in this protective garb, initiates were not always allowed to enter the tabernacle.

“And the Lord said to Moses: Tell Aaron your brother not to enter at all times into the sanctuary behind the veil before the lid [of the sanctuary] that is on the ark [of revelation], lest he die; for above the lid I will appear in a cloud” (Leviticus 16:2).

It was especially dangerous to enter the tabernacle and even approach it when light overshadowed it or a cloud filled it, which was well known to Moses:

“... And Moses could not enter into the tabernacle of meeting, because a cloud overshadowed it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle” (Exodus, 40, 35)

Despite the fact that God has given specific precautions, there are several times in the texts of the death of people in the tabernacle. Of course, the authors of the Bible explain all these cases by the fact that the victims were punished by God for breaking the laws:

“Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron…brought a strange fire before the Lord, which He did not command them; and fire went out from the Lord, and consumed them; they died before the presence of the Lord. And Moses called Mishael and Elzafan... and said to them, Go, carry your brethren out of the sanctuary outside the camp. And they went and carried them out in their coats outside the camp, as Moses said. But to Aaron, and to Eleazar, and to Ithamar, his sons, Moses said: Do not uncover your heads, and do not tear your garments, lest you die” (Leviticus 10:1-6).

From the cited passage it is clear that Nadab and Abiud were not “burnt, but most likely killed by an electric discharge (since the chitons remained intact), and Moses, understanding the significance of protective clothing, went to violate the traditional rite over the dead (“do not expose your heads and do not tear your clothes apart).
It is possible that sometimes accidents happened through no fault of Moses. Something wasn't working in the tabernacle itself. After one such incident, when fire came out of it and a defeat began among the people ”(mass death of people), panic began in the camp:

And the children of Israel said to Moses: “Behold, we are dying, we are perishing, we are all perishing! Everyone who approaches the tabernacle of the Lord dies: shall we not all have to die?” (Numbers, 17, 12)

Moses in this case had to urgently contact God and ask him to intercede for the people. Aaron was reprimanded:

“And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house will bear with you the sin of negligence in the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you will bear the sin for the fault in your priesthood” (Numbers ch, 18, 2).

Generally speaking, Aaron, who succeeded Moses as high priest at the end of the long journey, apparently did not treat his duties as zealously as Moses. This, in particular, is evidenced by such an instruction that he received from God:

“And the Lord spoke unto Aaron, saying, Thou shalt not drink wine or strong drink, nor thy sons with thee, when ye enter the tabernacle of congregation [or approach the altar] lest you die” (Leviticus 10:8-9).

Sometimes Moses skillfully used the dangerous properties of the tabernacle for personal gain in order to further strengthen his authority or punish the recalcitrant. So, when Aaron and his wife Miriam raised a rebellion against Moses, challenging his sole right to communication with God, Moses invited them to appear before the face of the Lord at the moment when the Lord descended into the tabernacle in a cloudy pillar, i.e. at the most dangerous time.

“And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against them… And the cloud departed from the tabernacle, and, behold, Miriam was covered with leprosy like snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was in leprosy” (Numbers 12:9-10).

As a result of this incident, Aaron (probably because he was in protective clothing, like Moses), escaped with a slight fright. The instigator of the rebellion, Mariam, received a lethal dose of some kind of radiation (?). Thus, Moses gave an object lesson to the recalcitrant and once again confirmed his exclusive right to communicate with God.

How was this connection made? It follows from the texts that at certain moments Moses entered the holy of holies, saw the image of God in a fiery cloud between the figures of two cherubs on the lid of the ark, and heard a voice coming from there. What could be the principles of operation of this communication device?
It can be assumed that the figures of cherubs with outstretched wings were spark gaps, between which a plasma (“fiery”) cloud arose, in which, in some way unknown to us, a three-dimensional (holographic?) image of the subscriber Moses was generated. It is not clear from the text whether the image that Moses saw above the lid of the ark was moving. Rather, it was a still image (photo) projected during a communication session. Today, our communication technology does not have such devices, but this does not make this assumption fantastic.
Much clearer is the message that a voice was heard from this fiery cloud. Devices are known to modern technology in which a plasma cord (for example, an electric arc flame) included in an oscillatory circuit can serve as a source of sound vibrations, i.e. kind of speaker.

So, in 1951, the inventor Z. Klein developed a promising model of a loudspeaker - an ionophone, operating on the principle of air ionization. In this sound-reproducing device, a high-frequency electric field is applied to a metal tip. Due to the corona discharge, air ionization occurs, as a result of which a significant increase in temperature occurs around the tip, and the air decompresses and turns into plasma. The electrical signal modulates the amplitude of the discharge voltage, which leads to temperature fluctuations, which in turn change the degree of pressure, and hence the sound oscillations of the plasma ball. By the way, the quality of sound reproduction and other data of the device is much superior to all known sound reproducing systems. So didn't Z. Klein invent the device that Moses used 3200 years before him?

So, from the biblical texts it clearly follows that the tabernacle gave Moses the opportunity to periodically enter into two-way contact with God (representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization). But from the same texts it is clear that this structure was very bulky, extremely dangerous and required complex handling rules and a large number of attendants. The question is legitimate: if the aliens’ connection with Moses was an end in itself, then wouldn’t it be easier to equip him with a portable transceiver device, and not force him to drag a mountain of heavy gilded logs across the desert, periodically unfold the entire structure, protect it, expose himself and the whole tribe to dangers, etc.? Since it was the last option that was chosen, it is reasonable to ask: for what purpose was the tabernacle created after all? It seems to us that this mystery is as multi-layered as megaliths, and by removing one layer of the unknown, we expose deeper, more and more complex layers ...

Thirdly, those who were allowed inside the tabernacle were required to wear special clothing, which consisted of the following components:

1. Bottom linen clothing, always clean (so as not to incur sin and die), in other words, an insulator.

2. Long outer clothing (chiton and riza), replete with gold ornaments, with gold threads woven into the fabric with a massive gold breastplate, gilded belt, etc. supposed conductor, and, apparently, grounded (clothes probably touched the ground).

3. Golden bells along the hem of the robe (so that a sound can be heard from him when he enters the sanctuary before the face of the Lord, and when he leaves so that he does not die) a sound signal warning about a person entering a dangerous zone.

4. On the headdress - a massive polished gold plate - a diadem (and it will be incessantly on his forehead).

Let us pay attention to another aspect of this biblical story. According to the Bible, God undertook to lead the tribe of ancient Jews from Egyptian captivity to the promised land. For some reason, this hike took an incredibly long time: the path from the Nile Valley to the Jordan Valley (a distance of about 1000 km) stretched for ... 40 years! Meanwhile, it is quite obvious that such a distance, even in desert conditions, on carts drawn by oxen, with numerous belongings and cattle, could be quite successfully overcome in six months, a year. They walked for a very long time. The text contains, for example, references to the first and second years of the journey, during the campaign Moses and Aaron managed to grow old, there was a change of generations, and all the events described (wars with other tribes, skirmishes, riots) should have happened in a couple of decades.

The tribe moved along an extremely strange, complex and confusing path, reminiscent of the trajectory of a particle during Brownian motion: repeatedly returning to the same place, walking backwards, crossing its own path.

It was interesting to put this path on the map:

Pay attention to the fact that all these moves of Moses were carried out within the same area, territory. They just didn't sit still.

In general, while reading the text, one gets the impression that Moses had no idea where to lead the tribe and was entirely guided by instructions from above. The entire journey was carried out according to the direct instructions of God (representatives of extraterrestrial civilization): he led Moses' compatriots along one route known to him, marking the places and duration of stops. Apparently, Moses received instructions in advance where to go next. He announced this high decision and organized another move. However, sometimes there are descriptions of how a pillar of cloud walked in front of a tribe moving through the desert during the day and a pillar of fire at night. Where they were staying, Moses ordered the tabernacle to be unrolled. The description of this trip with completely incomprehensible and illogical zigzags, turns, stops at different times is least of all like a story about moving from one point to another. It is, rather, groping for some points or objects on the ground, searching for something, exploring the desert or some of its zones.

All these repeatedly mentioned fiery (at night) and cloudy (by day) pillars look intriguing. They either walked in front of the tabernacle, or filled it for one time or another. As already mentioned, at the moment when the cloud filled the tabernacle, even Moses was strictly forbidden to enter it. It turns out that in addition to being a messenger, the tabernacle was also a research device, a kind of frame, with the help of which the aliens were engaged in some kind of long-term research.

As a hypothesis, it can be assumed that the cloud pillars and fiery clouds were areas of ionized air glowing in a channel of powerful microwave radiation transmitted from space. In this case, the tabernacle could play the role of a protective device (the radiation channel was enclosed near the surface of the Earth by a double conductive fence).
It is clear that in the event of a violation of the focus, the microwave beam went beyond the tabernacle and could cause defeat among the people. If the tabernacle played the role of a protective or, perhaps, a focusing device, then all these transfers of energy from the Cosmos to it could pursue goals related, for example, to the study of the internal structure of the Earth. The pumping of energy at certain points could be associated with electromagnetic soundings.

It can also be assumed that the aliens groped for energetically active areas of the earth's crust to charge, say, their batteries. Recall that all the wanderings of the tribe of Moses took place in the zone of the East African rift system, passing from the river. Zambezi in the south to the Dead Sea and the valley of the river. Jordan in the north. This is an extremely active tectonic area of ​​the Earth, with very powerful energy flows, manifested in strong earthquakes, volcanism, etc.

The luminous "pillars" could also be beams of microlepton radiation, which some scientists are now talking about. The descriptions of the pillars of fire and the Bible are reminiscent of those strange tube-like beams of light that have repeatedly been observed emerging from UFOs hovering over the Earth. Witnesses describe the strange properties of these rays: their ability to shorten or lengthen, very brightly illuminate parts of the Earth, etc.

For now, the following can be stated. The aliens in the time of Moses for a long time were engaged in works that are still mysterious to us. For some reason, it was more convenient for them not to move the research frame or lattice (tabernacle) on the ground, but to entrust this to their representative, Moses.

So, from everything written, we concluded that representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization led people through the desert for 40 years, studied it (for reasons unknown to us, although I gave several versions in a previous post). This story depicts the actions of the aliens in a not very favorable moral and ethical light (from our earthly, human point of view). For forty years a group of inhabitants of the Earth was used, if not as guinea pigs, then at least as executors of someone else's will. Safety precautions were applied rather with the aim of retaining trained individuals for the sake of continuing the experience. At the end of the journey, when the program was probably already completed and the tribe entered the “promised land”, the dangerous apparatus (the ark with the tablets) was not destroyed or neutralized, it continued to harm people for many years (remember the episode with the death of thousands of Philistines and Israelis who looked into the ark).

Now let's look at the whole story from a completely different perspective. The extraterrestrials, for reasons unknown to us, were interested in isolating a group of people from the outside world and excluding them for two generations from any contact with the rest of humanity. Thinking about the reasons for such behavior of extraterrestrials, one can come to the conclusion that they wanted to re-educate this group of people, instilling in them new norms of behavior, a way of thinking. Because etch slave psychology the older generation did not succeed, then they had to lead the tribe through the desert for 40 years, until there was a change of two generations.
Indeed, in the Bible, God repeatedly reproaches the tribe of Moses about its cruelty and numerous vices. In the end, God told Moses that none of his generation would enter the promised land, and carried out that threat. Neither Moses, nor Aaron, nor any of the first generation of Jews entered the "promised land". An exception was made only for Joshua and Caleb, the son of Jethon, from the second generation (it is said about the latter that he had a different spirit. I wonder what kind of spirit? Is it extraterrestrial?):

“... only to their children who are here with Me, who do not know what is good and what is evil, to all the young, who understand nothing, I will give them the land, and all who irritated Me will not see it” (Numbers, 14, 23).

Let's dig even deeper.. It is possible that the 40-year wandering of the tribe in the desert was not just a necessary period of time for a generational change. It seems that all this time a long experiment was carried out on the genetic influence on the new generations, on their alteration in the right direction. Perhaps the tabernacle was a tool that helped to find the most favorable energy areas, the zones of action of the positive earthly field. The conception of children in such zones contributed to the emergence of new genetic traits, fixed by inheritance. After 40 years, completely different people approached the promised land, different from their ancestors who left Egypt. It is also possible that the tabernacle was not just a “probe” for finding such favorable energy zones, but a device that actively transforms energy flows, increasing their influence on people.

Surprising as it may seem, we want to draw a parallel between the Tabernacle and the megalithic structures. In particular, the tabernacle is reminiscent of cromlechs such as Stonehenge. The common features of these seemingly little similar structures are as follows:

1. Both Stonehenge and the Moses Tabernacle consisted of large vertical blocks. The only difference is in the material - the sarsens and triliths of Stonehenge were made of stone, the bars of the tabernacle were made of wood covered with gold or silver.

2. Both the tabernacle and Stonehenge (its cromlech) contained horizontal members that shorted the posts at the top. At the tabernacle, these were gilded poles, at Stonehenge, stone cross-beams of sarsens and triliths.

3. The geometric parameters of the vertical elements of both structures were of the same order. So, the height of sarsens is 5.5 m, triliths are 6.0, 6.5 and 7.3 m (with crossbars). The height of the pillars of the tabernacle is 6 m.

4. The tabernacle had "stone elements" tablets (a supposed radio-technical device made of crystalline elements). It is impossible to exclude the possibility that the tablets worked on the same principles as dolmens and other megalithic transmitters (in particular, generating radio waves due to the piezoelectric effect, etc.)

5. It seems that megaliths, like the tabernacle, were located in energetically active zones and nodes of the Earth.

First, in my opinion, the "Pentateuch", i.e. The Torah was written while Moses was alive. At the time of the exit from Egypt, the Israelis must have had people who knew writing, because to live so much time in such a highly developed state as Egypt of that time (in which artisans wrote letters to each other) and not adopt any writing could be one person, but not several thousand. In addition, Moses himself grew up in the family of the pharaoh and before his death he bequeathed to read the texts once every seven years, and if they had not been written down, then during this period such a large amount of very accurate information would most likely have been forgotten. And in the book of Exodus ch.18, Moses, along with a thousand, a hundred and fifty chiefs, mentions "clerks".

Secondly, in the strange Old Testament events, the authors see "a representative of a highly developed extraterrestrial civilization." But, studying the biblical records, one should not dwell only on the events of 3 thousand years ago, because the priest Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, also had a meeting with the “representative” in the temple: “Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of the censer. Zechariah, seeing him, was embarrassed, and fear fell upon him. The angel said to him: Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name: John ”(heb. from Luke 1).
It is possible to compare the “jewelry” burning of the Levites with the current “jewelry” lighting of candles in the Jerusalem Church of the “Holy Sepulcher” on Easter, which is sometimes accompanied by the appearance of a cloud near the temple, and, according to my information, not only in it and not only on Easter:

“And fire went out from the Lord and consumed two hundred and fifty men who brought incense.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Elizar. to the son of Aaron, the priest, let him gather up the brass censers of those who have been burned, and cast the fire out: for the censers of these sinners have been sanctified by their death.” (Exodus 16)

And if we add to this the lighting of altars, to Moses and the Prophet Elijah, etc., then it turns out that this “representative of a highly developed extraterrestrial civilization” has a penchant for pyromania, and for three thousand years he has been “trampling” in the Middle East, periodically either forming a cloud or lighting a fire. It is obvious that he is quite clearly aware of the limitations of the human system of perception (first attention), and therefore periodically gives such signals so that they do not forget about him, and “faith in him does not fade away”!

And, thirdly, from the text of the Old Testament it is clear that clothing with protective properties and sound signaling was in a single copy, and perhaps it was used before the destruction of the temple by the Romans, and the case of King Ptolemy Philopator and the priest Alkim indicate that the danger in the temple existed until the time of Jesus Christ.

“Then the All-seeing God above all, the Holy One, having heard the prayer of humility, struck the haughty one with violence and insolence, shaking him back and forth like a reed by the wind, so that he lay motionless on the platform, and being relaxed by the members, and could not even give a voice, comprehended by a righteous judgment” (3 Maccabees 9).

This event is reminiscent of the impact of an electric shock, and occurred about a hundred years after the death of Alexander the Great.
The only item in the clothes of the high priest, performing the role of grounding, could only be a belt. But it is unlikely that it was always tied so that it touched the ground. And if the same Oz, etc. were struck by an electric current in our usual sense, then surely a couple of negligent high priests who tied their belt incorrectly or forgot it at home would certainly be added to all those struck by God. For such a long period of time, it is easy to do such stupidity. But, in my opinion, the nature of the deadly "electricity" was different. What is it? Read on.
Modern electrical engineering defines electricity in three ways: voltage, current, and frequency. Each of these parameters can have a value from zero to infinity. So it turns out that it is also three-dimensional, like our "Euclidean" space. And if you add modulation here too? ..
In connection with all of the above, it can be assumed that the nature of this deadly electricity (possibly radiation) can be designated as bioetheric, because there are a lot of unexpected, sometimes purposeful, and sometimes unpredictable in its behavior.

God, after the incident with the Golden Calf, informs Moses that it is not he personally who will lead them, but his angel. Who is this angel? Why does the representative of extraterrestrial intelligence transfer his place apparently to his assistant - an angel? If you think about it, there is nothing surprising in this. It is possible that it was a group of 2 or more aliens. In the beginning, one of them had an affair with Moses, and then for some reason he tells Moses that there will be another in his place. And it is possible that the first one was simply losing his nerve, or he was isolated from people for a while.

“For thou shalt not worship any other god but the Lord; because His name is "zealot";
He is a jealous God” (Ex. 34:14)

The Hebrew word: "qin'ah" and the Greek word "zelos", which in the Bible is translated by the word "jealousy", mean "warmth" or "heat". Warmth and heat ... Does it remind you of anything? Think of the smoke and fire that accompanied the Israelites on their march. Both words are used in the Bible in both positive and negative contexts to emphasize the positive or negative connotation of feelings.

Well, if there is jealousy, then there must be an object of this jealousy, so the Bible itself confirms, in the face of God, the presence of other gods.
And note that the god Jehovah considers those other gods either impostors or significantly inferior to him in strength, tk. even in the phrase about the jealousy of God, other gods are written with a small letter, and God "writes" his own title with a capital letter.

Consequently, several aliens claimed the Earth, several species that Jehovah called impostors, weak and jealous of them. He tried his best to protect people from them.

The weight of the gold used in the construction of the tabernacle is interesting:
“All the gold that was used for all the utensils of the sanctuary was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, sacred shekels” (Ex. 38:24)
Talent - a monetary unit and a measure of weight in antiquity, equal to 3000 shekels (36 kg)
The shekel is an ancient unit of weight, equal to approximately 12 g.
These values ​​are taken from the Bible Dictionary of V.P. Vikhlyantsev, and we will use them for calculations.
29 talents of gold = 1044 kilograms. A ton of pennies. Not bad huh?
730 shekels of gold = 8.76 kilograms.
In general, it turns out, approximately, one ton and 50 kilograms of gold .. this is the scope ...
Why was there so much gold?

An interesting fact is that gold is constantly mentioned in the Bible in various texts:

Genesis 2:11
The name of one Pishon: it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:12
and the gold of that land is good; there bdolakh and onyx stone.

Genesis 24:35
The Lord greatly blessed my master, and he became great: He gave him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, male and female slaves, camels and donkeys;

Exodus 35:5
make offerings of yourselves to the Lord: every one, with diligence, shall bring an offering to the Lord, gold, silver, brass,

Exodus 35:22
and husbands and wives came, and all according to the disposition of their hearts brought rings, earrings, rings and pendants, all kinds of golden things, everyone who only wanted to bring gold to the Lord;

Exodus 39:3
and they broke the gold into sheets and drew out the threads to weave them between the blue, purple, scarlet and linen threads, with skillful work.

Joshua 6:18
and all silver and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, shall be holy to the Lord, and shall enter into the treasury of the Lord.

1 Kings 7:51
Thus was completed all the work that King Solomon did for the temple of the Lord. And Solomon brought what was consecrated by David his father; silver and gold and things he gave to the treasury of the temple of the Lord.

Ezra 8:30
And the priests and the Levites received the weighed silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to carry them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.

Even John the Evangelist saw gold in his visions:

Revelation of John the Evangelist 21:18
Its wall was built of jasper, and the city was pure gold, like pure glass.

Revelation of John the Evangelist 21:21
And the twelve gates are twelve pearls: each gate was of one pearl. The street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

The clothes, without which it was impossible to enter the tabernacle, were covered with gold, the tabernacle too. If anyone entered the tabernacle without special clothing, he would die. There is a warning verse in the Bible about this. Sometimes there were failures in the work of the tabernacle, and hundreds and thousands of people died due to the strong radiation going beyond its limits.

So, after God gave Moses the 10 commandments and the basic laws, the latter went down to his own and told them everything, the Sons of Israel agreed to everything.
Then God again calls Moses to the mountain to give him detailed instructions about the construction and decoration of the sanctuary of God.

“Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights” (Ex. 24:18)

God gives him detailed instructions on how to make, and from what to make, the sanctuary itself is a tabernacle, for this purpose Moses must collect from his people an offering to God - gold, silver, copper, blue, purple and scarlet wool, fine linen (the thinnest white fabric, very expensive, made of linen or cotton paper), and goat hair, and red ram skins, and blue skins, and shittim wood (flexible, but at the same time very hard e tree, from acacia), firs for the lamp, onyx stone.
Moses also needed to make an ark to store the tablets and a table with a lamp.
All these things were made mainly from shittim wood overlaid with gold, with various carved decorations - golden cherubs on the ark, a golden crown on the table, golden decorations of the lamp in the form of apples and flowers.
All utensils also had to be made of gold - censers, bowls, mugs, lamps, tongs, etc.

Almighty God has some strange tastes, why do everything from the most expensive material of those days? God is almighty and omnipotent, he could, in order to increase his “toughness”, order to make himself a “sanctuary” from, for example, platinum or meteoric iron. It is very doubtful precisely the divine will to such an excessive embellishment of the place of prayer and sacrifice.
The sanctuary itself also had to turn out very beautiful on the one hand, and on the other insanely expensive, the outer frame of the tabernacle was to be made of linen bedspreads and blue, purple and scarlet wool, also decorated with cherubs.

The retaining bars should be made of shittim wood overlaid with gold, with bases of silver.
The altar should be made of shittim wood, hollow inside, and a net for it, and various utensils - pots for ashes, shovels, bowls, forks, etc. made from copper. Why did God need forks???

The court of the tabernacle was also to be hung with hangings of fine linen and multi-colored wool, all the accessories of the tabernacle were of brass.
Next, God appoints the priests:

“Take to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, to be a priest to Me, Aaron and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron” (Ex. 28: 1)

And orders to make sacred clothes for them:

“These are the garments they are to make: a breastplate, an ephod, an outer garment, a tunic, a tunic, a shawl, and a girdle” (Ex. 28:4)

Ephod - a short garment
Chiton - long underwear,
Kidar - head decoration.

All clothes had to be encrusted with gold and precious stones, and certainly weighed heavily.
It was necessary to insert 12 precious stones into the breastplate, according to the number of the tribes of Israel - carbuncle, sapphire, diamond, topaz, ruby, emerald, yacht, agate, amethyst, chrysolite, onyx, jasper. All of these stones must be inserted into golden sockets.

In conclusion, a few words about the fate of the tabernacle and its main element - the ark of the covenant with the tablets. After the end of the 40-year campaign in the promised land, the tabernacle fulfilled its role. The Ark of the Covenant was placed by King Solomon (965-926 BC) in the temple he built in Jerusalem. There he was in a special room, also called the Holy of Holies, until 597 BC. e., when Jerusalem was captured by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. But judging by one of the biblical texts, before the fall of the city, the Jewish shrine was securely hidden somewhere in the vicinity of Jerusalem:
“Jeremiah found a dwelling in a cave and brought in the tabernacle and the ark and the altar of the censer, and blocked the entrance. Later, when some of those who were accompanying them came to notice the entrance, they could not find it” (Second Book of Maccabees, 2:5-6).
Perhaps the ark is still in this secret cave.

Conclusion:

1. It was not the Creator who spoke to Moses, but a representative of an extraterrestrial civilization.

2. The tabernacle is not some kind of temple, but a special device for communicating aliens with earthlings, in this case with Moses.

3. The tabernacle was also a special research equipment with which the aliens explored our planet for 40 years. The purpose is unknown to us.

4. The tabernacle was life-threatening. Most likely due to some strong radiation or radiation. It was mandatory to enter the tabernacle in protective clothing.

5. Several tens of thousands of people died due to interruptions in the work of the tabernacle.

6. Moses sometimes used the tabernacle for his own purposes. Remember how he deliberately brought Aaron and his wife inside the tabernacle at the most dangerous time for a person - when there was a cloud, smoke in it. His wife suffered greatly, and Aaron himself was greatly frightened. By this, Moses made it clear that only he has the exclusive right to communicate with God.

7. Research work has been going on for 40 years. During this time, the Israelis were completely isolated from the other world, that is, they developed in isolation and only in the way that the representative of extraterrestrial intelligence indicated to them. During this time, there was a change of two generations and the new generation was already very different from those Israelites who were brought out of Egypt. The new generation was formed slave psychology.

8. Those who kept in touch with Moses got in touch with other people at different times as well. He did not show his face to Moses, and those who saw his face were very frightened. For example, Zechariah was greatly frightened. What was wrong with his face, how it affected people, we do not know.

This extraterrestrial civilization has constantly maintained contact with Earthlings for thousands of years, and for some reason with representatives of one people and only in the vicinity of the Arabian Peninsula. This civilization constantly led us and interfered in our lives. What they want from us, we do not know. But we haven't seen anything good from them yet. The main result of their activity is the three world Abrahamic religions, and one of the goals is the creation of a slave psychology among earthlings. They need our enslavement and humility for some reason. It is possible that people were originally created for slave purposes and the creators do not want a person to receive freedom. And it is possible that God created people completely free, and this extraterrestrial intelligence decided to enslave us and is doing everything possible for this. No wonder they told us that we are God's servants.

Interesting properties of the Ark

1. The Talmud says: "The place of the Ark has no dimensions." In other words, the Ark did not occupy a physical place in the Holy of Holies. This is derived from the biblical description of the cherubim that King Solomon made in the Temple: each wing of them was 10 cubits, while the width of the entire room of the Holy of Holies (Dvir) was 20 cubits - that is, there was no room left for the Ark itself.

2. The ark was transported from Kiri af-Yarim, on a new chariot. And on the way, the oxen bent him strongly. And one of the Levites stretched out his hand to hold him. But the Lord was angry with him, and struck him down because he stretched out his hand to the ark; and he died that very hour.

3. Another miraculous property of the Ark, according to legend, was that it "itself carried those who carried it." In other words, despite the fact that the Ark had to be very heavy, it not only did not burden those who carried it, but also carried them themselves.

4. It was also believed that along the path of the Ark, the hills were leveled with the ground.

When the Philistines placed the Ark on a cart with cows harnessed to it, they themselves took the exact direction to Bethshemesh (Beth-Shemesh).

Something interesting about the ark.

Solomon, the last of the officially known guardians of the Ark, spent a long time alone with him and after that became distinguished by increased wisdom. The ark carried itself, it was a source of radiation deadly for ordinary people, it was possible to move giant stones with its help, etc.

As noted above, the tabernacle and the ark were a single complex for communicating with aliens, who represented themselves as gods. Communication took place in the meter range of radio waves, but with microwave modulation. It was from the microwave that people died.
Where did the energy come from? And where did Nikola Tesla get it from for his car, which drove for a month without refueling? The space is teeming with the so-called. free energy. And the Ark was, to a heap, a machine for extracting and accumulating it.

A little about Yahweh. Recall that Yahweh was gone for almost half a millennium. For those 430 years of the Egyptian captivity of the Jews, he did not show his nose ... Where was he?

But still, Yahweh came in the rays of Glory, that is, in a bright light so that it was impossible to see anything. And by his own admission, he was not physically on Earth at that time. On the other hand, he took meat and gold in the form of sacrifices very regularly… Hence another property of the Ark – an extra-spatial transmitter of matter…

Now about atomic gold. After descending from Sinai for the first time, Moses found that idolatry had revived among the Jews. What did he do with the golden calf? Burnt! It seems incredible that you can burn gold. But Moshe is not stupid... He knew a couple of secrets...

Now it is believed that Moses transformed the ordinary gold of the altar into atomic gold, which is also colloidal gold.
In the alchemical tradition, it is called the Philosopher's Stone, because it gives vivacity, many years and can modify metals into itself ... It also interacts with the gravitational field in a rather unusual way. The Philosopher's Stone is sometimes immensely heavy, sometimes lighter than air. This may explain how the Ark carried those who carried it.

Actually, if you understand completely to the foundation, then the basis of knowledge, the embodiment of which was the Ark, is still alien. So Moses had a very multifunctional box, the only drawback of which was that it was charged almost instantly and therefore it was deadly dangerous to approach it without grounding.

Now let's see what history says about this, where this very ark can be now.

History has traced all the movements of the Ark to about 600 BC. And then he disappeared. When the troops of Nebuchadnezzar took and plundered Jerusalem in 587 BC, the Ark was not among the trophies. It is possible that, not wanting to risk the shrine in which Jewish civilization is involved, it was secretly transported somewhere in advance and hidden.

According to some reports, the Ark was taken to Ethiopia, which Graham Hancock brilliantly proves in the book "The Ark of the Covenant". It describes many historical facts confirming that the Ark is located in Ethiopia.

Another artifact seeker, American Ron Wyatt, told the world that he had found the shrine on January 6, 1982. After 4 years of excavations, driven by naked enthusiasm, Ron managed to find: 1. The place of the crucifixion. 2. Tomb of Christ with a round stone. 3. The Ark itself.
The loss was found in a cave under Calvary, clearly under the place where Christ was crucified. Moreover, from the place of execution, to the cave where the Ark and some other artifacts were hidden, there is a vertical crack and the blood of the Savior, flowing down the walls of the crack, reached the cover of the Ark and sprinkled it. Thus, Jesus can rightfully be considered a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. But for all that, the ritual is not over. In the tabernacle (the place where the ark of the covenant was kept), the Israelites sacrificed lambs for their sins.
Sins were removed from a person, but remained “for safekeeping” in the tabernacle. Once a year, the high priest performed the ritual of cleaning the tabernacle from filth: they cut one goat as a sacrifice, the other was called a “scapegoat”, he became the embodiment of Satan and the annual “harvest” of sins was transferred to him. The animal was driven into the desert, where it died, symbolizing the death of the Tempter. Only after this was it considered that the purification had taken place.

Ron, wanting to finally make sure that he had found the blood of Christ, scraped off a little black substance from the ark and gave it to the genetic laboratory for analysis. The substance, as it turned out, contains 24 chromosomes instead of 46. In addition to the maternal set of 23 chromosomes, another one was added in an incomprehensible way - the Y-chromosome, thanks to which the Savior was born, and not the Savior.

Ron, unlike the biblical unfortunate Oz, who died barely touching the ark, was more fortunate: after his discovery, he lived until 1999 and died of cancer.

According to the Torah, even one look at the Ark could lead to illness and painful death. Ron even took pictures of the Ark. And for this, the casket had to be removed from the sarcophagus, where it was stored. From the idea, however, a lot of sense did not work out. Only blurry yellow spots remained in the pictures! The careless American claimed that he opened the lid of the Ark and held the same Tablets of the Covenant in his hands.

Among historians-Egyptologists, the version is widespread that Moses took the idea of ​​the ark and angels from the Egyptians. So, according to numerous documented data, during the procession the priests of Heliopolis and Thebes carried caskets containing cult objects. And these caskets overshadowed with their wings the figures of patron spirits. Also by Moses, other borrowings were made from the Egyptian priests. In particular, the costume of the Israeli high priest was an exact copy of the clothes of the Egyptian priests. Thanks to the bells sewn to the hem of the robe, each movement was accompanied by a ringing.

This version of the Egyptologists can be accepted, but the hallmark of the tabernacle was that it was dangerous to people. If we accept the version of the Egyptologists, then we can continue it a little. For example, it is quite possible that the ideas were also given to the Egyptians by the same alien, and therefore we observe such similarities.

Subsequently, these borrowings passed from the Jews to the Arabs. Until now, in the Syrian desert, you can meet a camel carrying a small sacred tent and a casket on a ridge. In Arabic, it is called markab, or the Ark of Ishmael.

The Ark of the Covenant in Christianity.

In the Church Slavonic Bible, the Greek word "kivot" is used to designate the Ark of the Covenant, in order, as in the original text, to distinguish it from Noah's ark (and also the ark-basket where the baby Moses was placed).

In the Christian tradition, the Ark of the Covenant, like other sacred objects of the Jerusalem temple, is understood as a prototype of an element of the Christian temple - the Kivot or Tabernacle.

Just as the Ark was in the Holy of Holies of the Temple and the Tablets of the Covenant were kept in it, so the Tabernacle is located in the altar of the Christian temple with the Holy Gifts, the Body and Blood of Christ enclosed in it, forming the New Testament of man with God.

The Ark of the Covenant in Islam.

• In Islam, this youngest of the world religions, the idea of ​​the origin of the Ark of the Covenant and its meaning is almost identical to the biblical one, although its own specificity is introduced.
• According to the Koran, the Ark also contained the stone Tablets of the Covenant, the rod of the prophet Moses (Musa), the rod and miter of the prophet Aaron (Harun).
• The Ark of the Covenant in Islam is also called "Tabut Sakina" (Storage of Grace), and in some translations it is called a coffin.
• The Qur'an contains a brief history of the loss of the Ark by the people of Israel as a result of wars.
• According to legend, Islam also agrees with the biblical events of finding the Ark first by Saul (Talut), then David (Dawud), and its establishment by Solomon (Suleiman) in the Temple he built.
• In the Qur'an, the Ark of the Covenant is mentioned in the words of a prophet identified with Samuel:

“And their prophet said to them: “The Ark (of the Covenant) will be a sign of its destiny for you, in which to you from your Lord is sakina (grace and peace) and what is left of the descendants of Musa and Harun; and the angels will bring it to you. And if you believe, then verily in this is a sign for you.” Koran 2:248

In the story of Saul (Talut) and David (Dawud), the Ark miraculously returned, indicating that Allah had chosen Saul as king of Israel. Spiritual interpretations of this hadith say that when the Koran is accepted by all people, the return of the Ark will indicate that the last times have come, it will be a sign of the proximity of the arrival of the Mahdi.

Reference: Mahdi (Arabic “guided [along the path of Allah]”) is a herald of the near end of the world, the last successor of the Prophet Muhammad, a kind of messiah. The Qur'an does not mention the Mahdi, but the idea of ​​a messiah is widely interpreted in hadith. Until that time, the Ark was hidden, according to the hadiths, in the city of Antakya (modern Turkey), where the Essenes allegedly could bring it.

“He will be called Mahdi, for he will show the way to that which is hidden.

He will find Tabut (Ark of the Covenant) in a place called Antakya.” - Suyuti, el-Havi li’l Feteva, II. 82

“The Mahdi will send an army to fight the Rums. His knowledge of fiqh is equal to the knowledge of ten Ulama. He will find Tabut Sakina in a cave in Antakya."

I wonder where is Antakya? There are many similar questions, only one thing is known .. they are looking for this ark .. and they are looking hard .. the pursuit of the ark is somewhat reminiscent of the pursuit of the galaxy in "Men in Black" .. everyone needs it, but for what purposes - you will not understand .. Maybe in order to get in touch with extraterrestrial intelligence?

Exodus 25 chapter

They made me an offering. The divine will was shown to Israel in the Decalogue, the commandments and "laws" of the "book of the covenant" were given to Moses, and the covenant between God and His people was made. But a permanent form of service has not yet been established. By this time only the "altar" had been erected and certain instructions given concerning it (Ex. 20:24-26), but a complete system had not been established whereby the worship of the one true God could become an effective means of winning people into brotherhood and obedience, and preventing them from the polytheism of the Gentiles. People were to have the privilege of participating in the construction of the place that was to be the dwelling place of God.

Who will have diligence. Literally, "whom his heart stirs." God only wanted gifts that came from the heart, not just from the hands or the purse. He would only accept what was freely and "willingly" given (2 Corinthians 9:6-7). Only the one who gives from the heart will have God's name inscribed, since he alone gives in the spirit of the churches of Macedonia (2 Corinthians 8:1-5). That the people responded in this way is evident from Exodus 35:21-29 and 36:3-7. And the tabernacle was built as a result of voluntary offerings. A similar spirit was witnessed in the time of David, when the Temple was to be built (1 Chr. 29:1-9), and even when the captives returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel were rebuilding the Temple (Ezra 2:68, 69; Hagg. 1:12-14).

Gold. The three metals were to be used in the tabernacle itself and in its objects. "Copper" was an alloy of copper and tin and is bronze, not copper. When the Jews left Egypt, they "borrowed" treasures from the Egyptians (see on Ex. 3:22; 12:35, 36). People gave the Lord the best they had. God will not accept a "sacrifice" that is "blind", "lame", or "sick" (Mal. 1:8). This does not mean that God expects us to give beyond our ability, but rather, to the best of our ability (2 Corinthians 8:12).

The “mite” of a widow (Mk. 12:41-44) is just as pleasing to Him as “an alabaster vessel with precious ointment” (Mt. 26:6-13), or the “price” of an estate laid at the feet of the apostles (Da. 5:1-2). This offering to God of the best we have refers not only to possessions, but also to our resources, time, and strength. The best of our abilities should be His, our warmest affections, our deepest thoughts, our highest aspirations. Many different gifts are needed in the ministry of Christ, and there is not one person so poor or in need of ability that he cannot contribute. We must not forget the lesson of the parable shown in the punishment of the one-talented man (Matt. 25:14-15, 24-30). The Israelites stored up their treasures in heaven, dedicating them to the work and service of God (Matthew 6:19-21). They were not deceived by the “gain” of the world, since they did not intend to “damage their souls” (see Matt. 16:25-26).

Badger skins. The Hebrew word here translated "badger" seems to be borrowed from the Egyptians, a word describing the skin of unspecified animals; it is also thought to be related to the Arabic word for seal, or dugong or sea cow (PP 347). This aquatic herbivore, which reaches 10 to 12 feet in length, has a round head, chest for feeding the young, and a split tail. It is often found among the coral reefs of the Red Sea. It is assumed that the dugong gave rise to the legendary mermaid. These skins were used to make the outer covering of the tent.

sittim tree. Acacia wood. It is solid, durable and best suited for this.

And they will build a sanctuary for me. Although the Jews knew, as we do, that the great God cannot "live" in any man-made building (1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chron. 2:6; Is. 66:1; Jer. 23:23-24), it seemed out of place that there could be worship without a temple. In addition, the sanctuary represented the visible center of worship of the one true God and was thus a defense against the polytheism of the pagans. This placed God close to His children and made His presence among them real. It was also a defense against idolatry (Ex. 29:43, 45; (Num. 35:34). Since the Israelites were nomadic, wandering people at that time, the sanctuary must have been a tent that could be easily dismantled and moved from place to place. It is important to note that the Hebrew word "sanctuary" never referred to pagan temples.

I will dwell. In a spiritual sense, God has always longed to be with people and could not “rest” until he received it (Ps. 133:13-16), first in the hearts of His people personally (1 Cor. The system, concentrated in the earthly tabernacle, pointed to Christ, who later "lived", literally "dwelt" among people (John 1:14).

The Hebrew word shakan, "to live," meant to be a permanent resident of society. This is closely related to the word Shekinah (Shekinah), used to describe the Divine glory that was placed over the Throne of the Lord PP 349). The Shekinah was a symbol of the Divine Presence, as God had promised to "dwell in their midst" (see Ex. 25:22).

Sample. This shows that although the workmanship was human, the plan was God's. God has always counted on the participation of man, on cooperation in the creation of His house. Everyone had the opportunity to participate in this work.

On the mountain, Moses saw a "miniature image" of the heavenly sanctuary (PP 343; Da.7:44; Heb.8:5), the "true tabernacle" (Heb.8:2). Being on earth, as said, he was a "type" of the "heavenly" (Heb. 9:23-24), because he was made "according to the pattern" shown to Moses (Heb. 8:5). It was a "copy" of the "greater original" in heaven (GB 414). In a vision, John was escorted to the heavenly sanctuary (Rev. 15:5), where he saw an ark (Rev. 11:19), an altar of incense (Rev. 8:3-5), and possibly a candlestick (Rev. 1:12; 11:4). There is thus "an indisputable proof of the existence of a sanctuary in heaven" where the Ruler of the universe sits on the throne (GB 415), and where Christ ministers as our great High Priest (Heb. 8:1-2).

It is useless, however, to speculate on the size, exact appearance, or exact location of the heavenly sanctuary, since "no earthly structure could represent its immensity and glory" (PP 357). Man was created "in the likeness of God" (Gen. 1:27), but still only Christ is "the image of His hypostasis" (Heb. 1:3). Everything earthly vaguely represents that which is infinite. Moses was shown not the heavenly sanctuary itself, but its image. Afterwards, the earthly sanctuary was copied from that in heaven so precisely that it was a vivid illustration of the various aspects of Christ's ministry on behalf of fallen man (PP 357). We must focus our attention on what He does for us there, as Paul writes in Hebrews (Heb. 3:1; 10:12, 19-22; etc.).

The tabernacle in heaven, like this one on earth, was set up to deal with sin. Christ "began his work of mediator" after the resurrection and before the ascension 40 days later (DA 819). He was prepared to accept His priesthood on the basis that He had redeemed us with His blood (Heb. 9:12).

Solomon knew that even his Temple, although it surpassed the tabernacle of the wilderness in size and beauty, could not contain God (1 Kings 8:27). Yet God treated it as His own house (Is. 56:7), as later to Herod's Temple (Matt. 21:31). And He, who dwells "on high in the heavens and in the sanctuary," will build His abode "also with the contrite and lowly in spirit" (Isaiah 57:15).

10. Ark. The Hebrew word thus translated may come from a root meaning "to assemble," "to assemble." If so, the "ark" was a chest in which things could be collected for storage. A related Assyrian word, araЖnu, 'box', is derived from the root aramu, 'to cover'.
Elbow. The Jews, like the Egyptians, used both the long and the short cubit. Although the length of the Jewish cubit is a mystery, it is known that the normal Egyptian cubit was 17.7 inches and the royal cubit was 20.6 inches. Both measures must have been known to the Jews who built the Egyptian cities. Thus, in the time of Hezekiah, the Hebrew cubit was approximately 17.5 inches, roughly corresponding to the usual Egyptian cubit, and it can be assumed that this measure was used in the construction of the ark. Accordingly, the ark was approximately 1.11 m long and 0.67 m wide and high.
12. At the four corners. Literally, "its four corners". The rings were not attached to the upper "corners" but to these four "legs" or "bases" (v. 22). The "bars" or "poles" threaded through these rings (v. 13) were to rest on the shoulders of the men who carried the ark during Israel's journey. These "staves" were to remain in place (v. 15) to avoid touching any part of the ark when it was raised or lowered. Since these poles were not part of the ark itself, touching them did not defile the ark (see 2 Sam. 6:6-7).
16. Revelation. Two stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments (Ex. 30:6; 31:18; 32:15-16). The main purpose of the ark was to serve as a repository for the holy law of God. Since the stone tablets were a reflection of the character and will of God, and were, moreover, written by the hand of God, they were revered as the most sacred object in the sanctuary. The sanctuary was therefore called "the tabernacle of testimony" (Ex. 38:21; Num. 9:15; etc.). The law was also known as the "covenant" (Deut. 4:12, 13; 9:9-15), and the ark was therefore usually called the "ark of the covenant" (Deut. 31:26; Heb. 9:4; etc.).

17. The throne of grace. The word thus translated comes from a root meaning "to cover," that is, "to forgive" sin. It symbolized Divine Mercy. Notably, it was made of "pure gold", implying that mercy is the most precious of the attributes of God. The lid was above the law, since mercy is higher than justice (Ps. 84:10; 88:14). The Ark with its justice and the Throne of the Lord with its mercy were necessary to show the full nature of God's dealings with men. Mercy without justice is weak sentimentality, contrary to all moral principles. On the other hand, justice without mercy is moral cruelty, theoretically without flaw, but disgusting to both God and people.
The Ark and the Throne of the Lord constituted the very heart of the sanctuary. Above the Throne of God was the Shekinah, the symbol of the Divine presence. The tablets of the covenant contained in the ark testified to the fact that God's kingdom is based on an unchanging standard of righteousness (Ps. 96:2), which even Divine grace must respect. Grace cannot "destroy the law" (Rom. 3:31). When the sin is forgiven, the requirement of the law for the sinner must also be satisfied. The very purpose of the gospel is to secure for the sinner the remission of his sins by faith in a remedy that "does not destroy the law" but "establishes" it. While the tablets in the ark testified against the people, the Throne of Grace pointed to the way in which the requirements of the law could be satisfied, and the sinner could be saved from death, the punishment of the law. There can be no reunion between God and man on the basis of law alone, since sin separates us from Him (Isaiah 59:1-2). The blood-stained Throne of Grace intervenes, for only through the mediation of Christ on our behalf can we draw near to God (Heb. 7:25).
18. Cherubim. Hebrew plural of cherub. The origin of the word is doubtful. Cherubim were established on the throne of grace at both ends (see Gen. 3:24). One wing of each angel was stretched upwards, and the other covered the body (see Ezek. 1:11) as a sign of reverence and humility. The position of the cherubim, with their faces turned towards each other and directed downward towards the ark, represents the reverence with which the heavenly host regards the law of God and shows them their interest in the plan of salvation.

23. Table made of shittim wood. Leaving the holy of holies, Moses now describes the objects of the holy place. The first item mentioned is "showbread", or "presence bread" (RSV). Mark calls them "presentation bread" (Mark 2:26), literally, "presentation bread," that is, bread presented to God. Paul uses the same Greek word in Heb. 9:2.
This table was approximately 88.9 cm long, 44.5 cm wide and 66.7 cm high (see Ex. 25:10). It should have been located to the right of the entrance, that is, to the north (Ex. 40:22).
24. Golden crown. This was a border or molding around the top to discourage falling. Josephus mentions that "four rings" (v. 26) were inserted into the legs of the table, and "poles" passed through them to carry it (Antiquities iii. 6. 6).
29. Dish. Probably a plate in which the loaves were placed. "Ladles" were bowls in which incense was burned, as can be seen in the bas-relief of a table in the Arch of Titus, erected in Rome to commemorate the capture of Jerusalem in 70 AD. "Pitchers" and "bowls" were used for libations that accompanied meat sacrifices (Lev. 23:13, 18, 37; etc.).
30. Rely on the table. The "Showbreads" or "Presence Breads" consisted of 12 loaves or pies that were changed every Sabbath. The bread that was removed was considered holy and was eaten by the priests in the "holy place" (Lev. 24:5-9). These 12 loaves represented eternal gratitude to God from the 12 tribes for the blessings of life they received daily from Him. In a higher sense, this bread pointed to the spiritual bread, Jesus Christ.

31. Lamp. Preferably, "candlestick". Shown in the Arch of Titus, and as Josephus (Antiquities iii. 6. 7) confirmed, the "candlestick" consisted of an upright stem, on each side of which three branches extended upwards, in pairs (v. 35), at the same level. Its dimensions are not given, it was made of pure gold. Its branches were adorned with almond-shaped "cups" or "flowers" (v. 33), which resembled pomegranates, according to some Bible students, or "flowers." One by one the lamps of the "candlestick" were cut each evening at sunset and in the morning (Ex. 27:20-21; 30:7-8; Lev. 24:3-4). They were never extinguished, but burned all the time (PP 348). When the priest entered the first compartment of the tabernacle, the candlestick was on his left side, to the south (Ex. 40:24).
38. Forceps. These were carbon tongs used to cut the wicks of lamps.
39. Pure gold talent. Equivalent in weight 34.19 kg. In a sense, the "lamp" represented God's people as the moral and spiritual light of the world individually (Matt. 5:14-16; Phil. 2:15) and as the church (Rev. 1:12, 20). It also represented the power of the Holy Spirit to illuminate the church (Zech. 4:2-6; Rev. 4:5). In the highest sense, as previously said, this points to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (John 9:5), who is the light of the world (John 1:4; 8:12; 12:46), who conveys to the soul “Every good gift and every perfect gift”, descending from above from the “Father of Lights” (James 1:17).

According to the materials of the biblical commentary of the SDA

). The tabernacle was the place of worship and the meeting of man with God.

In the narrow sense, the tabernacle is that coverlet of ten separate sheets of twisted linen, blue, purple and scarlet wool with cherubs skillfully embroidered on them, which was first stretched over a frame of beams (Ex. 26: 1-6, cf. Art. 7 and Num. 4:25). This first cover (actually the tabernacle) was covered with the second - from goat hair (Ex. 26:7-13; Ex. 36:14-18), then with two more covers made of red ram skins and blue skins (goat or some other, it is not clear in the original) (Ex. 26:24; Ex. 36:19). The beams that formed the walls of the tabernacle served as a support for them (Ex. 26:15-25; Ex. 36:20-30). Each of these bars was 0.75 wide m and height 5 m and if they were installed close to each other, then the tabernacle in plan had dimensions of 15 x 6 m. It is possible to assume something else. If the first veil, which was a total size of 20 x 14 m stretched with its perimeter on vertically standing bars, then the tabernacle should have also been 20 x 14 in size m and this would correspond to Ex. m(that is, a meter wider and two meters longer than the first). But this is unlikely, because all four covers of the tabernacle with such dimensions would have had a large sagging, and besides, there would have been gaps between the beams of the walls. Thus, the former should be assumed, and Exodus 26:12-13 should be understood as an indication of the difference in size between the first two veils.

All bars were covered with gold ( Ref. 26). Each beam (weighing about 360 kg) was mounted on two massive silver bases weighing 36 kg each and among themselves the bars were connected by poles inserted into special rings (Ex. 26:26-29; Ex. 36:31-34). They, apparently, also supported the covers. In front, in addition to hanging covers, the tabernacle also had a veil, strengthened on five pillars (Ex. 26:36-37; Ex. 36:37-38). Inside the tabernacle, as later in the temple, at a distance of 2/3 of the total depth of the room from the entrance, there was a second curtain hung on four pillars (Ex. 26:31-32; Ex. 36:35-36). The first room was called holy and it was installed: to the right of the entrance a table for the bread of the offering, to the left - a lamp, right in front of the veil - an altar for incense (Exodus 26:35). The room behind the curtain was called the Holy of Holies and only one ark was placed there (Ex. 26:33-34). The tabernacle was erected directly on the ground, but it itself was extremely richly decorated inside: all the bars, the poles fastening them and the pillars of the curtains were overlaid with gold; the altar of incense and the table for the bread of the offering were beautifully decorated with gold, and the embossed lamp was entirely made of gold; the veils and the inner covering (the tabernacle itself) were woven with skillful work, and images of cherubim were embroidered on them.

Only priests could enter the holy place, only the high priest could enter the Holy of Holies once a year. There, over the cherubim of the purgatory, the Lord appeared to Moses and spoke to him (Ex. 25:22).

Everything about the tabernacle was of great importance. It was not just a place for the worship of the Jewish people, it was a mysterious prototype of the Messiah coming into the world - our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, and not only in its main features, but in all the smallest details.

The tabernacle was surrounded by a courtyard, which was formed by curtains of white cloth, hung on poles 2.5 meters high. m. Yard size was 50 m in length and 25 m wide (Ex. 27:9-19; Ex. 38:9-17). The tabernacle was located at the back of the courtyard. A washing bowl was placed in front of it (Ex. 30:18 -21; Ex. 38: 8), and between it and the gate of the courtyard - an altar of burnt offerings (Ex. 27: 1 - 8; Ex. 38: 1 - 7). The tabernacle and the courtyard were oriented with their opening curtains towards the east.

All work on the arrangement of the tabernacle was completed within 10 months and the tabernacle was first installed at Mount Sinai exactly one year after the Jews left Egypt (Ex. 19:1; Ex. 40:17).

From Mount Sinai, the tabernacle made its way through all the deserts along with the people of Israel and was transferred through the Jordan at Jericho and installed for the first time on Canaan land in Gilgal (Josh. 4:19), then it was transferred to Shiloh, where it remained for about 400 years (Josh. 18: 1; Jos. 19: 51; Judg. 18: 31; 1 Sam. ) (1 Sam. 21:1-6) and in Gibeon (1 Chr. 21:29; 2 Chr. 1:3-5). After the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar, it seems to have been renewed at Mizpah ( cm. Massif, c).

Tsar David, having transferred the ark from Kiriafiarim to Jerusalem, arranged a new tabernacle for him (leaving the old one in place) (2 c. 6: 17; 2 cord. 7: 2; 2 Tsar. 12: 20; 3 cards 1: 39; 3 c.m. 2: 28; 1 ​​Par. 15: 1; 1; 1; 2ar: 1; 2): 4). As can be seen from 1 Chronicles 16:1, 4,39-40, divine services under David took place simultaneously in two tabernacles. Later, Solomon, when transferring the ark to the temple, also transferred to the temple a new tabernacle (1 Kings 8:1 -4,6; 2 Chronicles 5:1 -5,7), but the further fate of this tabernacle and the one that remained in Gibeon is not known. ( cm. Gibeon, altar, incense altar, veil, ark, Mizpah, in, lamp, sanctuary, holy, Holy of Holies, Shiloh, camp, laver, showbread, temple)

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- (Heb. Mishkan, from the Greek. Skene monastery). I. OBJECT AND NAME 1) C. is a portable sanctuary in which the Lord has dwelt since the time of the giving of the Law to the Israelites at Mount Sinai (Ex. 25:8). Its other names are: dwelling (Ex 26:1, in the Synod. per. tabernacle ... Brockhaus Bible Encyclopedia

- (from the Greek skene tent). Camping church of the Jews, arranged according to the model indicated by Moses. Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language. Chudinov A.N., 1910. Tabernacle Greek. skene, tent, from skia, shade. The mobile church of the former ... ... Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language

Female, Greek bush, canopy, tent; | camping church of the Israelites, to the Jerusalem temple. The Tabernacle, which is called the Holy of Holies, Heb. Scanopygia, the holiday of the Jews, in memory of their wanderings in the wilderness, the feast of tabernacles, or tabernacles, distort. heaps. Dictionary… … Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

Tabernacle. From mishkan, "dwelling", the word comes from shakan, "to live". This word is a cognate of Shekinah, the majestic presence of God (see on Ex. 25:8 and Gen. 3:24) in the Holy of Holies (Ex. 25:22). The word tabernacle can be more accurately rendered today as "tent" or "dwelling."

The sacred objects of the tabernacle, with the exception of the altar of incense, have already been described. This is recorded in Exodus 30:1-10. Chapter 26 describes the arrangement of the sacred "tabernacle." She had two main parts:

1. Quadrangular frame 13.34 m long, 4.45 m wide and 4.45 m high (see Ex. 25:10), opening on one side. Three walls were made of acacia wood covered with gold.
2. A coverlet of goat hair, probably with a flat top, stretched over the tabernacle. The word tabernacle is mistranslated as "covering" in v. 7, but seems to be correct elsewhere in the chapter (vv. 11-14, 36). The outer covering of "red ram skins" or tanned ram skins, and "blue skins" (see on Ex. 25:5), is a coverlet of finely dressed leather.

There were ancillary parts such as:

1. "Frames" or bases that were to hold up the vertical bars that made up the frame of the tabernacle.
2. "Beams" - the crossbars that were to be used to hold these frames together.
3. The "veil" or curtain stretched on pillars from one side of the tabernacle to the other, dividing it into two compartments. The first compartment, the "holy" or "first tabernacle", was twice as long as the "most holy" (Ex. 26:15-25, 33; see 1 Kings 6:16-20; Heb. 9:2-7), 8.89 m long and 4.46 m wide. The "most holy place" or "most holy place" (Heb. 9:3) was 4.45 meters long and wide.
4. The "canopy" or curtain covering the front, open part of the tabernacle where there was no wall.

Ten covers. Fastened together like a “cloth”, they formed the inner volume of these four “veils” (Ex. 26:7, 14), and were the ceiling of these two compartments. These coverings were two cubits shorter than the outer ones (v. 7), making the inner covering one cubit shorter on each side than the outer.

Cherubim. Since the materials used by Aholiab in decoration were identical to those named, it is reasonable to think that these "cherubs" were embroidered on the "curtains" (Ex. 35:35; 38:23). These cherubim represented the hosts of heaven who accompany the Lord and carry out His instructions (Ps. 103:20-21; see Gen. 3:24).

Length. Each blanket was 12.45 m long and 1.78 m wide. From the outside, there was nothing particularly attractive about the tabernacle. But inside she was very beautiful, with her gold, blue, purple, scarlet "veils" and cherubs embroidered on them.

Goat wool bedspreads. Arabs still use goat hair to weave their tents. It was the wool of goats, which gave strength to the sanctuary and protected it in wet and stormy weather. These "spreads" were two cubits longer than the inner linen curtains, and reached 13.34 m. Placed on top of the tabernacle, they reached the tops of the silver "pillars" or bases on both sides (see v. 19). This was ample covering for the back of the tent, and sufficient to protect the top of the front of the tabernacle.

Sheep skin. This "covering" was to extend over the "lambskin" covering to provide additional weather protection. Their size is not given, but it must have been enough to cover the goat's hair (v. 7).

Make bars. They were 4.45 m long and 0.66 m wide; Art. 16). They were arranged vertically, placing the two "thorns" (v. 17) of each pillar in two silver "pillars" or bases. The planks were overlaid with gold (v. 29).

Forty nests. They weighed talent, or 34.2 kg. each (Ex. 38:27). Each would form a cube less than 14.7 cm on a side. The "nests" were laid side by side on the ground, creating a continuous base for the walls. Forty more "nests" were required for the northern wall (Ex. 26:21), 16 for the western and 4 for pillars between 2 compartments - 100 "nests" in total (Ex. 38:27). The fact that the tabernacle was separated from the ground by these silver foundations symbolizes, according to some commentators, that the church should be separated from the world, not having a permanent residence here, but expecting by faith "a city that has foundations, of which God is the maker and builder" (Heb. 11:10). We "have no permanent city here, but are looking for the future" (Heb. 13:14).

Sixes - crossbars. To anchor the walls, "five poles" had to be made for each side and for the western part, four of which had to be threaded through the "rings". The fifth or middle "pole" in each wall was to pass through the middle of the bars (see Art. 28). Probably the four visible poles on each wall were on the outside of the tabernacle.

Veil. It was supposed to be of the same material and quality as the “ten curtains” that formed the interior covering of the ceiling and walls of the tent (v. 1), and on it were also embroidered figures of cherubim from silver and gold threads (PP 345).

Four pillars. The "veil" (v. 31) was to hang "on four pillars." The "veil for entering the tabernacle" was fixed on "five pillars" (vv. 36-37). The inner curtain did not reach the ceiling, but allowed the glory of God appearing above the Throne of Grace to be partly visible from the Holy Office (PP 353). These four pillars had golden “hooks” and rested “on four nests [bases] of silver,” just like the foundations of the walls (vv. 15, 19).

Hooks. "Hooks" were clasps or clips that held up the veil. Only the high priest entered the veil that separated the Holy Office from the Holy of Holies, and only once a year, on the Day of Judgment (Lev.16; Heb.9:7). Before the veil, in the Holy Office, various kinds of "daily" services were held.

Curtain for entry. This "veil" or veil covered the eastern, front part of the tabernacle. Some Bible scholars believe that it was possible to raise or lower this veil if needed.

Five pillars. There is some disagreement as to whether the Tabernacle had a flat roof or a gable roof. Much evidence leads to the conclusion that it was probably flat:

• The outer curtains (v. 8) were 30 cubits long, long enough to form a flat roof and extend down to either side, as a covering for gilded walls. A gable roof would require an increase in the length of the veil and would correspondingly reduce the length left to cover the sides. A greater or lesser part of the bottom of the gilded shields would thus be left open. But gold was intended for interior decoration. The fact that the inner veil was two cubits shorter than the outer three that covered it implies that the outer ones were made to protect it, and that they probably reached almost to the ground.
• No stretch or strut is mentioned and their use is not implied. Also, there is nothing to indicate that these five "pillars" were of different lengths.
• There is no mention of any means of covering the triangular pediments, and it would be quite improbable that they should remain open. Incidentally, the curtain that separated the Holy from the Holy of Holies did not reach the top of the building (PP 353) so that the light from the Shekinah could be partly visible above it from the first compartment of the sanctuary.
• The tent was a temporary, portable structure designed for use while wandering in the wilderness until the establishment of a permanent building in the Promised Land. Little rainfall in a dry, desert country wouldn't make a flat roof an inconvenience.

Thus, although there is no positive evidence, it seems more likely that the roof was flat. The drawings depicting the gable roof of the tabernacle are based on the personal opinion of the artist.

According to the materials of the biblical commentary of the SDA

After this, Moses began to build a tabernacle in the middle of the camp, as the Lord showed him on the mountain. This was the work of all the people of Israel. " And all who were drawn to it by the heart, and all whom the spirit disposed of, came and brought offerings to the Lord for the building of the tabernacle of meeting and for all its needs and for [all] the sacred garments.» (Ex. 35.21). They set up the tabernacle on the first day of the first month, that is, exactly one year after the exit from Egypt (Ex. 40.2).

The tabernacle consisted of three parts: Holy of Holies, sanctuaries and yard (see Fig. 1.). The tabernacle itself, or sacred tent, stood in the middle of a quadrangular courtyard, surrounded by bronze columns, which were connected by crossbars. Linen covers hung from the cross beams, so that the platform was closed on all sides by high curtains. The walls of the tabernacle were built of poles and beams of shittim (acacia) wood, and its roof was covered first with two woolen curtains depicting cherubs, and then with two curtains of ramskin.

Rice. 1. Reconstruction of the general view of the tabernacle (top) and the sacred objects in it (right)

The sacred temple-tent was divided into two halves: the Holy of Holies and the sanctuary, separated from each other by a woolen curtain embroidered with gold. The Holy of Holies was the most important part of the temple. It contained the Ark of the Covenant (see Fig. 1.), which was a box made of shittim wood, lined inside and out with forged gold sheets. The lid of the Ark, called the purgatory, was made of pure gold. At its ends were two images of cherubs. The ark was considered the most important shrine of the temple. Moses, at the command of God, put the tablets into the Ark, and placed a vessel with manna in front of the Ark.

There were three sacred objects in the sanctuary (see Fig. 1.). In the center of the sanctuary, opposite the Ark, stood a censer altar made of precious wood and overlaid with gold. On it, the priests sacrificed incense or incense. To the right of the incense altar stood a wooden table overlaid with gold, with twelve showbreads, which were changed every Sabbath. To the left stood a golden lamp, like a tree, with seven lamps in which oil was burning.

In the courtyard, in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, there was an altar of burnt offering, bound with copper, and a large copper washbasin for washing the hands and feet of the priests before worship. The entrance to the tabernacle was on the east side, so that the Holy of Holies, in contrast to the pagan altars, was turned to the west.

The tabernacle without a courtyard was small. It was 30 cubits long (i.e. 15.6 m; the sacred cubit was 52 cm), wide and 10 cubits (5.2 m) high. When the tabernacle was completed, Moses consecrated it by anointing all its sacred objects with oil.

At the same time, Aaron and his sons from the tribe of Levi were chosen to perform divine services at the tabernacle. " And take to you your brother Aaron, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, to be a priest to Me, Aaron and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron» (Ex. 28.1). If before the giving of the law among the Jews, any head of the family could perform priestly duties, that is, make sacrifices to God, now only the descendants of Aaron could be priests. At the head of the priests was high priest(At first he was also called simply a priest, Ex. 28.1, or "anointed priest", Lev. 4.3, or "great priest", Lev. 21.10). The first high priest was Aaron, whom Moses anointed (Ex. 40.12-15), then the high priest, after the death of Aaron, was his son Eleazar (Num. 20.26), then the grandson of Aaron and the son of Eleazar - Phinehas (Deut. 10.6), etc. To help in the service of the priests at the tabernacle, the rest of the representatives of the tribe of Levi (not descendants of Aaron) - the lion ita (Num. 3.6-8).

When the tabernacle was built, then a cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle» (Ex. 40.34). The cloud above the tabernacle was a symbol of the Lord's presence among Israel.

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