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