The announcement that generates the entire tabernacle project appears in Exodus 25:8, before a single cubit of acacia wood has been cut: “And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.”

The Hebrew word for dwell is shakan (to settle, to take up residence, to pitch a tent).

The Great King who thundered from Sinai and whose kavod the people could not approach without dying is asking to move into the camp.