And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, to the shaft thereof, and to the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the candlestick.
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the model that he had seen.
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished by God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mount.
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.