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"Our fathers had ^(bk)the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it ^(bl)according to the pattern which he had seen.

And having received it in their turn, our fathers ^(bm)brought it in with ^[ad]Joshua upon dispossessing the ^[ae]nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.

^(bn)David found favor in God's sight, and ^(bo)asked that he might find a dwelling place for the ^[af]God of Jacob.

But it was ^(bp)Solomon who built a house for Him.

However, ^(bq)the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:

‘^(br) Heaven is My throne , And earth is the footstool of My feet ; What kind of house will you build for Me ?' says the Lord, ‘ Or what place is there for My repose ?

‘^(bs) Was it not My hand which made all these things ?'