The portable sanctuary Israel built at Sinai and carried through the wilderness — a curtained tent within a courtyard, God's dwelling in the midst of the camp. Hebrew has two names for it: the MISHKAN, 'dwelling-place' (from shakhan, 'to dwell'), and the OHEL MO'ED, the 'tent of MEETING' — mo'ed being the 'appointed time/place,' the same word hung on the lights of Genesis 1:14 (see the dictionary). It is the appointed place of appointed meeting: 'there I will meet with you and speak with you' (Exodus 25:22). Exodus 25–40 gives its blueprint and building; it is finished and filled with the glory-cloud on the first day of the second year (Exodus 40:17, 34). Leviticus is then spoken entirely FROM it — 'Jehovah called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting' (1:1) — the offerings all brought 'to the door of the tent of meeting' (1:3). Its inmost room, the Holy of Holies, housed the ark and its atonement-cover (kapporet); the later Jerusalem Temple made its pattern permanent in stone.