I am going through this now because I want to impress on us the chronology of events here. In Exodus 40, my Bible has the heading for this chapter: “The Tabernacle Erected and Arranged.”
When is Passover in relation to this date? It is on the fourteenth day of the first month! We are thirteen days away from the very next Passover after the original. Keep that in mind. We are that close to the original. By the time we get to the fourteenth, it will be one full year. So, everything was to be set up and ready to function for Aaron and his sons—and consecrated by the first day of the first month of the second year of the Exodus.
