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What Is Pavilion in the Bible?

Object

A tent, sometimes large and decorated. Peter wanted to make three tents on the mountain.

A detail

  1. Careful: here it is not a building in a park or at a fair.

Where it appears in the Bible

Matthew 17:4; Genesis 12:8

What the Bible says

Matthew 17:4

And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

Genesis 12:8

And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “pabellón”

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