According to the Bible, the Israelites used the Tabernacle as a portable sanctuary or place of worship during their wanderings in the wilderness. The name for it in Hebrew is "mishkan," meaning "dwelling," because Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, lived there among his people. It's also called a "tent of meeting," because Yahweh met there with Moses.
The Tabernacle was constructed of a variety of materials. For example, gifts from the people of Israel, such as gold, silver, bronze, brass, linen, acacia wood, tanned rams’ hides, and purple and scarlet veils.
The main area, Most Holy Place, or Holy of Holies, was a booth-like structure 30 cubits long, 10 cubits wide, and 10 cubits high. (A cubit is about 18 inches, or 46 centimeters.)
The main reason for the Tabernacle was to house The Ark of the Covenant which contained the tablets of the Ten Commandments. It could be entered only by Moses and by the high priest on the Day of Atonement. It was in that place alone that the presence of Yahweh supposedly dwelled.
Another area called The Holy Place could be entered by ordinary priests. Inside here were the Table of the Showbread, the Menorah, or seven-branched candlestick, and an incense altar.
Surrounding the Tabernacle was a court which contained the four-horned altar of burnt sacrifice as well as a laver for the ritual cleansings of the priests. Ordinary people there to worship could not go beyond the court.
An outer area surrounding the Tabernacle was 100 cubits long and 50 cubits wide. The wall was made of fine linen suspended from 56 pillars, five cubits higher than the Tabernacle or the altar. A small rod with a ring in the middle was connected to the top hem of the hangings. These hangings were tied to the rods, and the rods hung by their rings from the hooks of the pillars of the court.
Ropes, stretching from the bottom hem of the hangings to pins fixed in the earth, held the hangings fast to the ground.
The Tabernacle was ten cubits wide and 30 cubits long. A space of 20 cubits was left between the curtains of the Tabernacle and the hangings of the court, north, west, and south of the Tabernacle.
Including the pillars of the screen, there were 60 pillars of the court.
The pillars of the court were made of acacia wood filleted with silver. They were 15 cubits high, one cubit wide, one cubit deep and five cubits apart, and each pillar stood in a copper socket.
The pillars of the court were connected to each other by a rod going through the top of the capitals. Ropes were used to fasten them to the ground.
Exod. 26:33 You shall hang the curtain under the clasps, and bring the Ark of the Covenant in there, within the curtain; and the curtain shall separate for you the holy place from the most holy.
Exod. 26:34 You shall put the mercy seat on the Ark of the Covenant in the most holy place.
Exod. 30:6 You shall place it in front of the curtain that is above the Ark of the Covenant, in front of the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
Exod. 30:26 With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the Ark of the Covenant,
Exod. 31:7 the tent of meeting, and the Ark of the Covenant, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent. . . .
Exod. 35:12 the Ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the curtain for the screen . . . .
