How did God make his glorious presence known in the tabernacle? By the cloud. God announces this in Exodus 29:43 where he proclaims: “There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.” Indeed, the book of Exodus dramatically ends after the lengthy description of the instructions for building the tabernacle (chaps. 25–31) followed by the detailed description of the actual building (chaps. 35–40)10 with the cloud settling on the tabernacle: Then the cloud covered
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