Exodus 25:8
Good News Translation
The people must make a sacred Tent for me, so that I may live among them.

New Revised Standard Version
And have them make me a sanctuary, so that I may dwell among them.

Contemporary English Version
I also want them to build a special place where I can live among my people.

New American Bible
They are to make a sanctuary for me, that I may dwell in their midst.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:

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And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:

a sanctuary

Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

Exodus 36:1-4 Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom the Lord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially, made the things that are necessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and which the Lord commanded. . . .

Leviticus 4:6 And having dipped his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle with it seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 10:4 And Moses called Misael and Elisaphan, the sons of Oziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them: Go and take away your brethren from before the sanctuary, and carry them without the camp.

Leviticus 21:12 Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

Hebrews 9:1,2 The former indeed had also justifications of divine service and a sanctuary. . . .

I may dwell

Exodus 29:45 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will be their God:

1 Kings 6:13 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.

Isaiah 12:6 Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.

Zechariah 2:10 Sing praise, and rejoice, O daughter of Sion: for behold I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee: saith the Lord.

Zechariah 8:3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain.

2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

Hebrews 3:6 But Christ, as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.

Revelation 21:3 And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people: and God himself with them shall be their God.

Context
Offerings for the Tabernacle
7Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational. 8And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:9According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew thee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall make it:…
Cross References
Acts 7:44
The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen.

2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

Hebrews 9:1
The former indeed had also justifications of divine service and a sanctuary.

Hebrews 9:2
For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks and the table and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the Holy.

Revelation 21:3
And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people: and God himself with them shall be their God.

Exodus 29:45
And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will be their God:

Exodus 29:46
And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who have brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might abide among them, I the Lord their God.

Exodus 36:1
Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom the Lord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially, made the things that are necessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and which the Lord commanded.

Leviticus 26:11
I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you: and my soul shall not cast you off.

Numbers 5:3
Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they defile it when I shall dwell with you,

Deuteronomy 12:11
In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

Joshua 22:31
And Phinees the priest the son of Eleazar said to them: Now we know that the Lord is with us, because you are not guilty of this revolt, and you have delivered the children of Israel from the hand of the Lord.

1 Kings 6:13
And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.

Exodus 25:7
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