Tabernacle specifications (Exodus 25-28):

A. A cubit is ~18 inches.

1. The first purple, blue, and scarlet curtain was made by linking 10 curtains together.     There was one set of 5 curtains all coupled together.     50 blue loops & 50 gold clasps connected one set of curtains to another.     Each curtain was 20 X 4 cubits.

2. Over the 1st curtain they fastened a curtain of goat hair. This curtain made out of 11 instead of 10 curtains all together.     They coupled 5 curtains and 6 curtains together and the 6th curtain would hang over the front of the curtain mentioned above.     These were 30 X 4 cubits.     These two sets were clasped together with brass clasps.

3. There was a curtain made of ram skin dyed in blood that hung over the 2nd curtain and the length was unspecified.

4. There was a curtain made of badger / seal skin that hung over the 3rd curtain and the length was unspecified.

5. There were columns of accacia wood that went around the tabernacle.     8 columns in the back or west, 20 on the North and the South and each was 10 cubits by 1.5 cubits.     The two columns that met at the back were somehow clasped together with a ring.     For each column there was a silver socket that would be secured in the ground and connect socket to socket.     Most columns in the actual tabernacle was overlaid with gold.

6. There were 5 gold bars that went each on the North and South side of the tabernacle.     1 bar stretched all the way from side to side on each side to support the various curtains.

7. 4 columns were inside of the tabernacle and it had gold hooks that would hold up the inner curtain which seperated the holy place from the holy of holies.     This was made of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and had cherubim woven within it.

8. A screen of purple, blue, and scarlet hung over 5 columns in the front of the tabernacle and these 5 columns had brass sockets.     However, the hooks to support the screen were made of gold.

9. Around the outside of the tabernacle there were columns of acacia wood that were covered in bronze.     They were 5 cubits high. There were 10 in the front to the east, 10 in back, and 20 on the sides. There was a gate made of purple, blue, and scarlet and woven cherubim in the front that stretched across 20 cubits woth of columns.     These columns had bronze sockets, and silver hooks & bands.

10. The ark was 2.5 X 1.5 X 1.5 cubits.     The incense alter was 1 X 1 cubits.     The table of show bread was 2 X 1.5 cubits.     All items within the tabernacle were overlaid with gold.     The outside alter was 5 X 5 X 3 with 4 horns and a bronze crisscross of bars for burning and the alter was overlaid with bronze.     There was a laver made of bronze for washing.

Tabernacle Consecration (Exodus 29):

1. The priests were to bring one young bull and 2 rams along with wheat wafers, unleavened bread, and oil in a basket to the door of the tabernacle.

2. The priests bathed their bodies, got dressed, and were annointed.

3. They layed hands on the bullock by the door of the tabernacle and then they slaughtered the bull there.

4. They took the fat, and thecaul above the liver, and the kidneys and other fat and burned it on the alter.

5. Then they burned the flesh, skin, and dung outside the camp as a burned sin offering.

6. They killed the ram and poored his blood by the alter. They cut it in pieces up to the head and burned it on the alter as a sweet savory offering to the LORD.

7. They then killed the second ram and place his blood on the right ear, right thumb, and right large toe of high priest and his sons.

8. Then they sprinkled the blood on the alter and mixed some blood on the alter with some oil to annoint themselves.

9. They then took the fat of the rump, the right shoulder fat, 1 loaf of unleavened bread, and a wafer and put it in the hands of Aaron to be a burnt offering.

10. They waved it before the LORD and burnt it as a heave offering.

11. They took the flesh of this ram into the holy place and ate it and the bread by the door of the tabernacle and burned any left over before the morning came.

12. This ritual occured seven days.

The Daily Sacrifice (Exodus 29):

1. Every day a bullock is slain and put on the alter to sanctify it.

2. Every day two lambs are slain. One in the morning and one at evening.

3. They are mixed with 1/10th a deal of flour, 1/4 hin of oil and a hin of wine. A hin is about 1.5 US gallons.

This is burned at the door as a meat and drink offering to the LORD.

Redemption (Exodus 13 and 30):

1. Every firstborn cattle and firstborn male is holy to the LORD and must be redeemed with the sacrifice of a young lamb.

2. If a census is taken everyone between age 20 and up must bring a half sheckle to pay for the maintenance of the tabernacle.

Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16):

1. This is the day of atonement and it occurs on the 7th month, 10th day of every Jewish calendar just after Rosh Hashana.     In some ways Passover is truly the start of the Jewish Calendar not Rosh Hashana.

2. A young bullock is used as a sin offering for the priests, a ram is used as a burnt offering, and two young goats are used as sin offerings for the people.

3. The two goats are presented to the LORD by the door and lots are cast to decide which one will be offered and which will be the scape goat.

4. Aaron and his sons bring the bullock to the door to atone for his sins.

5. He takes incense in one hand and hot coals in the other and places it within the veil to burn in the holy of holies and to cover the mercy seat with smoke.

6. He kills the bullock and sprinkles his blood on the mercy seat with his finger seven times.

7. Then he kills the goat as a sin offering for the people and sprinkles his blood on the mercy seat (or the top of the ark) seven times.

8. Then he puts blood on the four horns of the bronze alter outside the tabernacle.

9. Then he brings the scape goat to the door of the tabernacle and confesses the sins of the people on him and sends him to an uninhabited land outside of the camp.

10. Aaron removes his garment at the tabernacle of the congregation, washes, and puts on his garments.

11. He burns the fat of the bullock and goat as a burnt offering to the LORD.

12. Someone else burns the flesh, skin, and dung of the animals outside of the camp as a sin offering to the LORD, then they wash their garments and their bodies outside, and then return to the camp.