The Tabernacle and Its Courtyard Among the Campsby Praneeth
40:7Exodus 40:7
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
The command directed that a bronze basin filled with water for the priests' use be placed in the court before the entrance of the meeting tent, between that tent and the altar of burnt offering. It belongs to the account of Moses rearing up the wilderness tabernacle in Sinai on the first day of the first month in the second year after the departure from Egypt, arranging its furnishings exactly according to the divine pattern, after which the cloud covered the tent and the glory of the Lord filled it as God's dwelling place among Israel and the center of worship under the typical system. That water-filled basin was part of the divinely prescribed rites and services that were object lessons in spiritual truth, revealing God's great love, unfolding the plan of redemption, teaching how sinners may approach God, and pointing forward to atonement. The movable wilderness sanctuary thus described, summarized in Hebrews 9:1-5, was typical of and foreshadowed the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man, and its ceremonial ordinances of types and shadows with their Levitical priesthood found their purpose fulfilled in Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary. The sanctuary so erected was sanctified and set apart for holy use before its service began, and could not be used as a common house.
Laver Placement and History
Exodus 40:7 belongs to the account of Moses erecting the wilderness tabernacle and arranging its sacred furnishings, and the completed sanctuary became God's dwelling place among Israel and the center of their worship under the typical system. The laver commanded there was a brazen vessel holding water for the priests' use, set between the tent of meeting and the altar of burnt offering before the tabernacle entrance and filled with water. It was part of the divinely prescribed arrangement for worship in the sanctuary courtyard, whose rites and services were object lessons in spiritual truths.
It stood outside before the door of the tabernacle within the court enclosed with curtains of fine twined linen erected around the whole. It was put in place when Moses reared up the tabernacle in the wilderness of Sinai in the second year after Israel departed from Egypt, on the first day of the first month. At that time he arranged the ark, mercy-seat, vail, table of shewbread, candlestick with its lighted lamps, altar of incense, and altar of burnt offering as commanded and offered the burnt offering and meat offering on the altar before the door, after which the cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
The structure was marvelously beautiful, made from free-will offerings exactly according to the divine pattern given to Moses in the mount in Exodus 25-31, with its dimensions, material, and furnishings, by workmen specially endowed by God, after Israel's deliverance from Egyptian bondage with a mighty hand. Hundreds of years of slavery had unfitted Israel to comprehend God's great salvation and the character He required, so God gave this fuller system with a great multiple object-lesson. From Eden to the Exodus the approach to God was simple, with the father of each family acting as priest and mediator by offering a lamb for sin upon an altar of rough stones.
The setting up of the completed tabernacle before its appointed priestly service began brought blessing and glory upon the congregation, and God's glory manifested there showed His acceptance of the people's repentance. The fact that Moses set up the tabernacle and placed its furniture on the first day of the first month does not prove that Abib 1 was the weekly Sabbath, because the command to set out the showbread every Sabbath was given later than the setting up.
Sanctuary Teaching and Fulfillment
The water-filled laver standing in the courtyard between the tent of meeting and the altar of burnt offering was part of the divinely prescribed arrangement for worship given after the deliverance from Egypt with a mighty hand. Because centuries of slavery had unfitted Israel to grasp God's great salvation and the character He required, He gave a great multiple object-lesson by various forms and rites comprehending the great plan of salvation. From Eden to the Exodus approach to God had been simple, with the father of each family acting as priest and mediator by offering a lamb for sin upon an altar of rough stones, but this fuller system revealed more fully His great love and unfolded the plan of redemption. Its rites and services were object lessons in spiritual truths teaching how sinners could approach God and pointing forward to atonement. The sanctuary was built from free-will offerings of all that would be used in it at God's request that they make Him a sanctuary that He might dwell among them, marvelously beautiful, its pattern divine and given to Moses in the mount, by workmen specially endowed by God, with the laver and its service standing in the court surrounding the portable structure together with the altar of burnt offering outside the two apartments separated by a curtain.
That wilderness sanctuary is described completely in Exodus 25-31 and 35-40 and summarized in Hebrews 9:1-5, with its dimensions, material, and furnishings made exactly according to the directions given to Moses in the mount. It was God's movable dwelling-place among men in the wilderness built after the deliverance from Egypt so that He might dwell among them, and it remained so through the time of the judges, Samuel, Saul, and David. Solomon afterward built the temple after the same pattern, and from its dedication when the glory of the Lord filled the house it was God's dwelling-place among Israel. The movable worldly sanctuary was typical of and foreshadowed the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man.
These ceremonial ordinances belonged to the Jewish system of types and shadows whose shadows trace the substance of the new dispensation and whose purpose was fulfilled in Christ. The ark containing God's law was placed in the tabernacle's Most Holy Place where the Levitical priesthood ministered before it, and that ministry was a temporary pattern of Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, not an abolition of the law. The verse is part of the law of Moses set forth in Exodus 20 to 40 and Leviticus that is to be remembered in the last days, standing together with the moral, civil, health, and conduct laws including the Ten Commandments with the statutes and judgments commanded in Horeb. It belongs among the laws revealing offerings, sacrifices, and types, all included in the law of Moses.
The verse belongs to the third division of Exodus dealing with worship, giving part of the established form of worship set up for Israel after their deliverance from Egypt as they became a nation with thorough organization, efficient leadership, and a complete code of laws. The book containing it means going out, referring to the departure of Israel from Egypt. It belongs to a separate set of laws God gave to regulate worship, distinct from the set He gave for civil government in Exodus 21 to 23. Civil government and religion are therefore two systems with essentially different purposes that must operate on entirely separate lines, civil government being a temporary arrangement of force to control men and regulate their relations to each other in this life, and true Gospel religion being designed to bring men back to God by persuasion.
The sanctuary God commanded Israel to make so He might dwell among them was sanctified and set apart for holy use before its service began, with its building instructions and particulars including the placing of the laver. The priests could not use it as they would their own houses.
The command directed that a bronze basin filled with water for the priests' use be placed in the court before the entrance of the meeting tent, between that tent and the altar of burnt offering. It belongs to the account of Moses rearing up the wilderness tabernacle in Sinai on the first day of the first month in the second year after the departure from Egypt, arranging its furnishings exactly according to the divine pattern, after which the cloud covered the tent and the glory of the Lord filled it as God's dwelling place among Israel and the center of worship under the typical system. That water-filled basin was part of the divinely prescribed rites and services that were object lessons in spiritual truth, revealing God's great love, unfolding the plan of redemption, teaching how sinners may approach God, and pointing forward to atonement. The movable wilderness sanctuary thus described, summarized in Hebrews 9:1-5, was typical of and foreshadowed the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man, and its ceremonial ordinances of types and shadows with their Levitical priesthood found their purpose fulfilled in Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary. The sanctuary so erected was sanctified and set apart for holy use before its service began, and could not be used as a common house.
Laver Placement and History
Exodus 40:7 belongs to the account of Moses erecting the wilderness tabernacle and arranging its sacred furnishings, and the completed sanctuary became God's dwelling place among Israel and the center of their worship under the typical system. The laver commanded there was a brazen vessel holding water for the priests' use, set between the tent of meeting and the altar of burnt offering before the tabernacle entrance and filled with water. It was part of the divinely prescribed arrangement for worship in the sanctuary courtyard, whose rites and services were object lessons in spiritual truths.
It stood outside before the door of the tabernacle within the court enclosed with curtains of fine twined linen erected around the whole. It was put in place when Moses reared up the tabernacle in the wilderness of Sinai in the second year after Israel departed from Egypt, on the first day of the first month. At that time he arranged the ark, mercy-seat, vail, table of shewbread, candlestick with its lighted lamps, altar of incense, and altar of burnt offering as commanded and offered the burnt offering and meat offering on the altar before the door, after which the cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
The structure was marvelously beautiful, made from free-will offerings exactly according to the divine pattern given to Moses in the mount in Exodus 25-31, with its dimensions, material, and furnishings, by workmen specially endowed by God, after Israel's deliverance from Egyptian bondage with a mighty hand. Hundreds of years of slavery had unfitted Israel to comprehend God's great salvation and the character He required, so God gave this fuller system with a great multiple object-lesson. From Eden to the Exodus the approach to God was simple, with the father of each family acting as priest and mediator by offering a lamb for sin upon an altar of rough stones.
The setting up of the completed tabernacle before its appointed priestly service began brought blessing and glory upon the congregation, and God's glory manifested there showed His acceptance of the people's repentance. The fact that Moses set up the tabernacle and placed its furniture on the first day of the first month does not prove that Abib 1 was the weekly Sabbath, because the command to set out the showbread every Sabbath was given later than the setting up.
Sanctuary Teaching and Fulfillment
The water-filled laver standing in the courtyard between the tent of meeting and the altar of burnt offering was part of the divinely prescribed arrangement for worship given after the deliverance from Egypt with a mighty hand. Because centuries of slavery had unfitted Israel to grasp God's great salvation and the character He required, He gave a great multiple object-lesson by various forms and rites comprehending the great plan of salvation. From Eden to the Exodus approach to God had been simple, with the father of each family acting as priest and mediator by offering a lamb for sin upon an altar of rough stones, but this fuller system revealed more fully His great love and unfolded the plan of redemption. Its rites and services were object lessons in spiritual truths teaching how sinners could approach God and pointing forward to atonement. The sanctuary was built from free-will offerings of all that would be used in it at God's request that they make Him a sanctuary that He might dwell among them, marvelously beautiful, its pattern divine and given to Moses in the mount, by workmen specially endowed by God, with the laver and its service standing in the court surrounding the portable structure together with the altar of burnt offering outside the two apartments separated by a curtain.
That wilderness sanctuary is described completely in Exodus 25-31 and 35-40 and summarized in Hebrews 9:1-5, with its dimensions, material, and furnishings made exactly according to the directions given to Moses in the mount. It was God's movable dwelling-place among men in the wilderness built after the deliverance from Egypt so that He might dwell among them, and it remained so through the time of the judges, Samuel, Saul, and David. Solomon afterward built the temple after the same pattern, and from its dedication when the glory of the Lord filled the house it was God's dwelling-place among Israel. The movable worldly sanctuary was typical of and foreshadowed the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man.
These ceremonial ordinances belonged to the Jewish system of types and shadows whose shadows trace the substance of the new dispensation and whose purpose was fulfilled in Christ. The ark containing God's law was placed in the tabernacle's Most Holy Place where the Levitical priesthood ministered before it, and that ministry was a temporary pattern of Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, not an abolition of the law. The verse is part of the law of Moses set forth in Exodus 20 to 40 and Leviticus that is to be remembered in the last days, standing together with the moral, civil, health, and conduct laws including the Ten Commandments with the statutes and judgments commanded in Horeb. It belongs among the laws revealing offerings, sacrifices, and types, all included in the law of Moses.
The verse belongs to the third division of Exodus dealing with worship, giving part of the established form of worship set up for Israel after their deliverance from Egypt as they became a nation with thorough organization, efficient leadership, and a complete code of laws. The book containing it means going out, referring to the departure of Israel from Egypt. It belongs to a separate set of laws God gave to regulate worship, distinct from the set He gave for civil government in Exodus 21 to 23. Civil government and religion are therefore two systems with essentially different purposes that must operate on entirely separate lines, civil government being a temporary arrangement of force to control men and regulate their relations to each other in this life, and true Gospel religion being designed to bring men back to God by persuasion.
The sanctuary God commanded Israel to make so He might dwell among them was sanctified and set apart for holy use before its service began, with its building instructions and particulars including the placing of the laver. The priests could not use it as they would their own houses.