Acts 7:44-50 Our ancestors had the Tabernacle of Revelation in the Desert, constructed, just as he who spoke to Moses had directed him to make it, after the model which he had seen.

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴⁴ Our ancestors had the Tabernacle of Revelation in the Desert, constructed, just as he who spoke to Moses had directed him to make it, after the model which he had seen. ⁴⁵ This Tabernacle, which was handed down to them, was brought into this country by our ancestors who accompanied Joshua (at the conquest of the nations that God drove out before their advance), and remained here until the time of David. ⁴⁶ David found favor with God, and prayed that he might find a dwelling for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But it was Solomon who built a House for God. ⁴⁸ Yet it is not in buildings made by hands that the Most High dwells. As the Prophet says-- ⁴⁹ 'The heavens are a throne for me, and the earth a stool for my feet. What manner of House will you build me, says the Lord, or what place is there where I may rest? ⁵⁰ Was it not my hand that made all these things?'