“When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,”
'Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern Moses had seen - Stephen shifts from indictment to the positive reality: Israel 'had the tabernacle of the covenant law' (skēnē tou martyriou, the tent of testimony) in the wilderness. The tabernacle (not the temple) was the original dwelling place of God with Israel. It was made 'according to the pattern Moses had seen' (kata ton typon), referencing Exodus 25:9, where God shows Moses the divine blueprint.
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