Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... two golden angels upon it; one at one end, and the other at the other end. These angels were to have their faces turned toward each other and their wings spread out. The cover with the angels upon it, was to be called the mercy-scat. And a table was to be made of wood, covered over with gold, to stand in the tabernacle; a golden candlestick also, which should burn and give light there. And God told Moses how the tabernacle itself should be made. As the people were on their journey to the land of Canaan, and would have to carry it with them, it must be built in such a way that they could take it down and put it up again, something like a tent. The sides of it were to be of boards covered with gold; these boards were to stand up and be fastened together. Over their tops curtains were to be spread, from one side to the other, for the roof. The door was to be a curtain hanging down in front, and there was to be another beautiful curtain, called the veil, hanging inside of the tabernacle, so as to make two rooms there. Moses was to bring the ark, with the mercy-seat upon it, into one of those rooms; in the other he was to set the golden table and the golden candlestick. And he was commanded to make a wall, or fence, around the tabernacle, a little way off from it, that there might be a yard around it. This yard was called the court. And an altar was to be made, which should stand in the court, before the door of the tabernacle. It was to be made of wood first, and then covered over with brass, and was to bo very large, because a great many animals, oxen and sheep and goats, were to be offered upon it. For until the Saviour should come into the world, and be offered up on the cross, the children of Israel were to offer up animals to show that...
