Only a portable tabernacle that traveled everywhere with Israel was adequate for the God who is everywhere. If the God who delivered them from Egypt and guided them in the wilderness could not be restricted to a territory, his center for sacrificial worship could not be restricted to a territory. Deuteronomy 12 restricted sacrificial worship in Israel to a single location. The God of the tent was among Israel in Canaan. The earth belongs to the God in the tent.
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