What Is Tabernacle (in the desert) in the Bible?
Object
The great holy tent where the Ark was kept in the desert. There God met with his people.
A detail
- In church: the same name is given to the place where the Eucharist is kept.
Where it appears in the Bible
Exodus 26:1; Exodus 40:34
What the Bible says
Exodus 26:1
And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt make ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery.
Exodus 40:34
The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “tabernáculo”; Catechism 1379