Ten embroidered curtains, goats’ hair over them, rams’ skins over that, and a fourth layer whose material nobody has identified. A veil with cherubim woven into it, dividing the holy place from the most holy. The Hebrew for the whole thing is mishkan, a dwelling. Two things are worth knowing first: gods who lived in tents were ordinary in this world, and the closest known parallel to the layout is not a temple but the military camp of Ramesses II.