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• Exodus 27Bible

  Exodus 27 is part of the instructions for building the tabernacle. It gives the specifications for the bronze-overlaid altar of burnt offering and for the tabernacle court enclosed by fine linen hangings, along with regulations for the pure olive oil used in the sanctuary lamp.

• The Rich Man and LazarusBible

  The Rich Man and Lazarus is a story told by Jesus in Luke 16:19–31. A rich man who lived in luxury and Lazarus, a beggar who lay at his gate, find their situations reversed after death. The story addresses wealth, care for one's neighbor, repentance, and the word of God.

• Marriage Supper of the LambBible

  The marriage supper of the Lamb is an expression found in Revelation 19. It refers to the feast celebrating the complete union of Christ, the Lamb, with his bride at the end of the age.

• Bride of the LambBible

  The Bride of the Lamb is an expression in the Book of Revelation for the bride who is married to the Lamb, Jesus Christ. It is commonly read as a symbol of God's redeemed people, that is, the church.

• EphodBible

  The ephod was a vest-like outer garment worn by the high priest in the Old Testament. Priests also wore a linen ephod, and the ephod served as a means of inquiring of God's will.

• Temple VeilBible

  The temple veil was the curtain that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place in the tabernacle and the Jerusalem temple. Only the high priest could pass behind it, and only once a year. The Gospels record that the veil was torn when Jesus died.

• Veil (Tabernacle and Temple)Bible

  The veil was the curtain that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place in the tabernacle and the Jerusalem temple. The Gospels record that the veil of the temple was torn when Jesus died on the cross.

• OphirBible

  Ophir is an Old Testament place name known as a source of fine gold. It appears as the destination of maritime trade in the time of Solomon, though its exact location is unknown.

• Leviticus 2Bible

  Leviticus 2 sets out the regulations for the grain offering, an offering presented from grain. It covers how to offer fine flour, baked cakes, and the firstfruits of grain, prohibits leaven and honey, and prescribes the salt of the covenant.

• EphahBible

  The ephah is an Old Testament dry measure of volume used for grain and flour. It appears both in sacrificial regulations and in everyday reckonings of grain, and the prophets condemned the falsified ephah as a symbol of injustice.

• FrankincenseBible

  Frankincense is an aromatic substance made from the resin of trees native to southern Arabia and northeastern Africa. In the Old Testament it was used in the holy incense and the grain offering, and in the New Testament it appears as one of the gifts the wise men presented to the infant Jesus.

• Continual Burnt OfferingBible

  The continual burnt offering was the regular burnt offering of Old Testament Israel in which the priest burned one young lamb every morning and another every evening. It is prescribed in Exodus 29 and Numbers 28.

• Priestly GarmentsBible

  The priestly garments were the holy garments made, according to Exodus 28, for Aaron and his sons to wear when they ministered in the tabernacle. The garments of the high priest are distinguished from those of the ordinary priests.

• Exodus 26Bible

  Exodus 26 is the chapter in which God instructs Moses on the construction of the tabernacle itself. It describes how to make the multiple layers of curtains and the skin coverings, the boards of shittim wood with their silver sockets, the veil dividing the holy place from the most holy place, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle.

• G. K. ChestertonPeople

  G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English journalist, author, and Christian apologist. He is best known for apologetic works such as Orthodoxy and for his Father Brown detective stories. In 1922 he left the Church of England and was received into the Roman Catholic Church.

• 2 Kings 7Bible

  2 Kings 7 tells how, while Samaria lay starving under an Aramean siege, Elisha prophesied that the price of grain would fall sharply the next day, and how, just as he had said, the Aramean army fled and the siege was lifted.

• Oil (Bible)Bible

  In the Bible, "oil" refers chiefly to olive oil pressed from the fruit of the olive tree. It was used for food, for lamps, and as medicine, and in sacrifices and anointing rites it signified consecration to God and blessing.