PATTERN, model, blueprint — from banah, 'to build.' Moses is shown a tavnit of the tabernacle and all its furnishings (25:9) and told simply 'so you shall make it'; the instruction recurs almost verbatim closing the same chapter (25:40, quoted directly at Hebrews 8:5, not yet on these pages). The word frames every specification that follows as a COPY of something Moses is shown, never his own design — the tabernacle is built to a plan, not invented on site. → first discussed at Exod 25:9