Exodus 40
40
Moses sets up the dwelling
1The LORD spoke to Moses: 2Set up the meeting tent dwelling on the first day of the first month.#40.2 March–April, Abib 3Place the chest containing the covenant inside the dwelling. Hide the chest from view with the veil. 4Bring in the table and arrange its items. Bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. 5Place the gold altar for burning incense in front of the chest containing the covenant. Set up the screen at the dwelling’s entrance. 6Put the altar for entirely burned offerings in front of the entrance to the meeting tent dwelling. 7Put the washbasin between the meeting tent and the altar and put water in it. 8Set up the courtyard all around. Hang up the screen at the courtyard gate. 9Then take the anointing oil and anoint the dwelling and everything in it. Make holy the dwelling and all its equipment, and it will be holy. 10Anoint the altar for entirely burned offerings and all its equipment. Make the altar holy, and the altar will be most holy. 11Anoint the washbasin with its stand and make it holy.
12Then bring Aaron and his sons to the meeting tent’s entrance and wash them with water. 13Dress Aaron in the holy clothes. Anoint him and make him holy so that he may serve me as priest. 14Then bring his sons and dress them in tunics. 15Anoint them like you anointed their father so that they may serve me as priests. Their anointing is to the priesthood for all time in every generation.
16Moses did everything exactly as the LORD had commanded him. 17In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the dwelling was set up. 18Moses set up the dwelling. He laid out its bases. He set up its boards, inserted its bars, and raised up its posts. 19He spread the tent out over the dwelling, and he put the covering of the tent over it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 20He took the covenant document and placed it inside the chest. He put the poles on the chest, and he set the cover on top of the chest. 21He brought the chest into the dwelling. He set up the veil as a screen to hide from view the chest containing the covenant, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 22He placed the table in the meeting tent, on the north side of the dwelling, outside the veil. 23He set the bread in its proper place on the table in the LORD’s presence, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 24He put the lampstand in the meeting tent, opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling. 25He set up the lamps in the LORD’s presence, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 26He put the gold altar in the meeting tent in front of the veil. 27He burned sweet-smelling incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 28He also set up the screen at the entrance to the dwelling. 29He placed the altar for entirely burned offerings at the entrance to the meeting tent dwelling. He offered the entirely burned offering and the grain offering on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 30He put the washbasin between the meeting tent and the altar, and put water in it for washing. 31Moses, Aaron, and his sons used it to wash their hands and their feet. 32Whenever they went into the meeting tent and whenever they approached the altar, they washed themselves, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 33He set up the courtyard around the dwelling and the altar, and he hung up the screen at the courtyard’s gate.
God’s presence fills the dwelling!
When Moses had finished all the work, 34the cloud covered the meeting tent and the LORD’s glorious presence filled the dwelling. 35Moses couldn’t enter the meeting tent because the cloud had settled on it, and the LORD’s glorious presence filled the dwelling. 36Whenever the cloud rose from the dwelling, the Israelites would set out on their journeys. 37But if the cloud didn’t rise, then they didn’t set out until the day it rose. 38The LORD’s cloud stayed over the dwelling during the day, with lightning in it at night, clearly visible to the whole household of Israel at every stage of their journey.
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Exodus 40
40
Setting Up the Tabernacle
1Then the Lord said to Moses: 2“Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month. 3Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain. 4Bring in the table and set out what belongs on it. Then bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. 5Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
6“Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting; 7place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it. 8Set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.
9“Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy. 10Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it will be most holy. 11Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.
12“Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water. 13Then dress Aaron in the sacred garments, anoint him and consecrate him so he may serve me as priest. 14Bring his sons and dress them in tunics. 15Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.” 16Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded him.
17So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year. 18When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted the crossbars and set up the posts. 19Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, as the Lord commanded him.
20He took the tablets of the covenant law and placed them in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it. 21Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant law, as the Lord commanded him.
22Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain 23and set out the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.
24He placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle 25and set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.
26Moses placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain 27and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord commanded him.
28Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle. 29He set the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it burnt offerings and grain offerings, as the Lord commanded him.
30He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing, 31and Moses and Aaron and his sons used it to wash their hands and feet. 32They washed whenever they entered the tent of meeting or approached the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses.
33Then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. And so Moses finished the work.
The Glory of the Lord
34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
36In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; 37but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted. 38So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.
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