God rescues the people.
God leads them out of Egypt
Moses talks to God on a mountain.
God agrees to dwell with the people and live in a tent, the tabernacle in the middle of Israel.
This sets up the idea that God used a tent and embodied that tent in the old testament as a way of relating to his people.
Then in the new testament, we are told Jesus tabernacled with us
John 1:14 ERV And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
You can see the greek and other translations here
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When we get to the greek word for dwelt among us they use the word here, to dwell as a tent
This seems a very deliberate phrasing connecting Jesus to the Tabernacle where God dwells. Just like the Tabernacle is God among his people, so too Jesus is God among his people and this time God does not come and go but stays.made His dwelling
ἐσκήνωσεν (eskēnōsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4637: To dwell as in a tent, encamp, have my tabernacle. From skenos; to tent or encamp, i.e. to occupy or, to reside.
Jesus is God.
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