English: The Tabernacle that the Israelites Built. Caption: "This is the tabernacle, or church, that the Israelites built. God told them how to build it. It is something like a tent. There are posts or pillars along its sides. Curtains are spread over these for its roof. The curtains are of different colors, and some of them have beautiful embroidered work on them. The fence around the tabernacle is made in the same way, of curtains fastened to pillars. When the Israelites want to go on their journey they take the tabernacle down and carry all the different parts of it to the place where they are going to make their camp. Then they set it up in the middle of the camp where all the people will be. The tabernacle is a very holy place, because the ark is kept in it, and because the cloud of the Lord always rests above it. No one can go into the tabernacle except the priests, The people say their prayers outside of it. The flags in the picture show where the people put up their tents all around the tabernacle." Illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us: Containing 400 Illustrations from the Old and New Testaments: With brief descriptions by Charles Foster