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The word "tabernacle" is from the Latin "tabernaculum", a kind of tent.

The tabernacle described in the Torah (Exodus ch.25-27) was a sanctuary for the service of God, built in such a way as to be dismantled and transported when the Israelites decamped in the wilderness.

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