A portable sanctuary
Torah text: Stated in the Five Books of Moses.Boards, curtains and coverings, carried by the Levites through the wilderness and set up wherever the camp rested.
משכן
The Mishkan
A sanctuary that could be taken apart and carried: the pattern for every Temple after it.
וְעָשׂוּ לִי מִקְדָּשׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּי בְּתוֹכָם׃
And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
From tent to House
The same zones and vessels, in the same order from east to west. Switch between them.
The courtyard
Torah text: Stated in the Five Books of Moses.A court of linen hangings, a hundred cubits by fifty and five cubits high, with the altar and the laver before the tent.
Menorah, Table and incense altar
Torah text: Stated in the Five Books of Moses.Inside the first room, the Holy: the Menorah on the south, the Table on the north, and the golden incense altar before the curtain.
The Ark and the Holy of Holies
Torah text: Stated in the Five Books of Moses.Behind the curtain, the Ark with its golden cover and two cherubim: ‘there I will meet with thee’.
The priesthood
Torah text: Stated in the Five Books of Moses.Aaron and his sons, in garments ‘for splendour and for beauty’.
The cloud of glory
Torah text: Stated in the Five Books of Moses.When the Mishkan was finished, the cloud covered it and the glory of God filled it. Ramban reads it as Sinai made portable.
Shiloh and after
Halachah: Rambam: Codified as Jewish law by Maimonides (Rambam) in the Mishneh Torah.After the conquest the Mishkan stood at Gilgal, then at Shiloh in a stone structure roofed with its curtains, then at Nov and Givon, until the Temple in Jerusalem.