40:1 The LORD said to Moses, |
40:2 "On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. |
40:3 And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. |
40:4 And you shall bring in the table, and set its arrangements in order; and you shall bring in the lampstand, and set up its lamps. |
40:5 And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. |
40:6 You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, |
40:7 and place the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. |
40:8 And you shall set up the court round about, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court. |
40:9 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture; and it shall become holy. |
40:10 You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar; and the altar shall be most holy. |
40:11 You shall also anoint the laver and its base, and consecrate it. |
40:12 Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water, |
40:13 and put upon Aaron the holy garments, and you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest. |
40:14 You shall bring his sons also and put coats on them, |
40:15 and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests: and their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations." |
40:16 Thus did Moses; according to all that the LORD commanded him, so he did. |
40:17 And in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected. |
40:18 Moses erected the tabernacle; he laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars; |
40:19 and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:20 And he took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat above on the ark; |
40:21 and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:22 And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil, |
40:23 and set the bread in order on it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:24 And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, |
40:25 and set up the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, |
40:27 and burnt fragrant incense upon it; as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:28 And he put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle. |
40:29 And he set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the cereal offering; as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:30 And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing, |
40:31 with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet; |
40:32 when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses. |
40:33 And he erected the court round the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. |
40:34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. |
40:35 And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. |
40:36 Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would go onward; |
40:37 but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not go onward till the day that it was taken up. |
40:38 For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was |