40:1 | Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: |
40:2 | "On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. |
40:3 | "You shall put in it the ark of the Testimony, and partition off the ark with the veil. |
40:4 | "You shall bring in the table and arrange the things that are to be set in order on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and light its lamps. |
40:5 | "You shall also set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Testimony, and put up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. |
40:6 | "Then you shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. |
40:7 | "And you shall set the laver between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. |
40:8 | "You shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen at the court gate. |
40:9 | "And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that [is] in it; and you shall hallow it and all its utensils, and it shall be holy. |
40:10 | "You shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar. The altar shall be most holy. |
40:11 | "And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and consecrate it. |
40:12 | "Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of meeting and wash them with water. |
40:13 | "You shall put the holy garments on Aaron, and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may minister to Me as priest. |
40:14 | "And you shall bring his sons and clothe them with tunics. |
40:15 | "You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." |
40:16 | Thus Moses did; according to all that the LORD had commanded him, so he did. |
40:17 | And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first [day] of the month, [that] the tabernacle was raised up. |
40:18 | So Moses raised up the tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. |
40:19 | And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:20 | He took the Testimony and put [it] into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark. |
40:21 | And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung up the veil of the covering, and partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:22 | He put the table in the tabernacle of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil; |
40:23 | and he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:24 | He put the lampstand in the tabernacle of meeting, across from the table, on the south side of the tabernacle; |
40:25 | and he lit the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:26 | He put the gold altar in the tabernacle of meeting in front of the veil; |
40:27 | and he burned sweet incense on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:28 | He hung up the screen [at] the door of the tabernacle. |
40:29 | And he put the altar of burnt offering [before] the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:30 | He set the laver between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put water there for washing; |
40:31 | and Moses, Aaron, and his sons would wash their hands and their feet [with water] from it. |
40:32 | Whenever they went into the tabernacle of meeting, and when they came near the altar, they washed, as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
40:33 | And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses finished the work. |
40:34 | Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. |
40:35 | And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. |
40:36 | Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys. |
40:37 | But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till the day that it was taken up. |
40:38 | For the cloud of the LORD [was] above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. |