Mishkan (Holy Sanctuary) Biblical-themed Greeting Cards (5-Pack)

The Mishkan is described in Parshat Teruma in the Book of Exodus thus:

Exodus 25:

And they shall make Me a holy [place], and I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, the pattern of the Mishkan and the pattern of all its vessels; and so shall you do.

And you shall overlay it with pure gold; from inside and from outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make upon it a golden crown all around. And you shall cast four golden rings for it, and you shall place them upon its four corners, two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.

And you shall make poles of acacia wood and you shall overlay them with gold. And you shall bring the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them. The poles of the ark shall be in the rings; they shall not be removed from it.

And you shall place into the ark the testimony, which I will give you. And you shall make an ark cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width. And you shall make two golden cherubim; you shall make them of hammered work, from the two ends of the ark cover.

And make one cherub from the one end and the other cherub from the other end; from the ark cover you shall make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall have their wings spread upwards, shielding the ark cover with their wings, with their faces toward one another; [turned] toward the ark cover shall be the faces of the cherubim.

And you shall place the ark cover on the ark from above, and into the ark you shall place the testimony, which I will give you.

I will arrange My meetings with you there, and I will speak with you from atop the ark cover from between the two cherubim that are upon the Ark of the Testimony, all that I will command you unto the children of Israel.

 

A model of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) at Timna, in the desert just north of Eilat.