Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them. The entrance curtain hangs on five posts — one more than the veil's four — with gold hooks. But the five posts stand in bronze bases rather than the silver bases of the veil's posts. The material gradation continues: from bronze in the outer courtyard to silver at the veil to gold at the ark's mercy seat. The entrance to the tabernacle is marked with the outermost material of the sanctuary's hierarchy. The worshipper who enters begins at the bronze-base threshold and, through the covenant's ministry, approaches the gold-covered center where God meets His servant.

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