Charles Ellicott Commentary Exodus 25:9

"According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it." — Exodus 25:9 (ASV)

The pattern. It has been maintained that God showed to Moses:

1. a material structure, furnished with material objects, as the model which he was to follow in making the Tabernacle and its appurtenances;
2. a pictorial representation of the whole;
3. a series of visions in which the forms were represented to the eye of the mind.

The entire analogy of the Divine dealings is in favor of the last-mentioned view.