Exodus 40:17–38

¹⁷In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, ^vthe tabernacle was erected. ¹⁸Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars. ¹⁹And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁰He ^wtook the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark. ²¹And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and ^xset up the veil of the screen, and screened ^ythe ark of the testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^22zHe put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil, ²³and arranged the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^24aHe put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, ^25band set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^26cHe put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, ²⁷and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^28dHe put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle. ^29eAnd he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the ^fgrain offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^30gHe set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing, ³¹with which Moses and ^hAaron and his sons ⁱwashed their hands and their feet. ³²When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, as the Lord commanded Moses. ^33jAnd he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So ^kMoses finished the work.

The Glory of the Lord

³⁴Then ^lthe cloud covered the tent of meeting, and ^mthe glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. ³⁵And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. ³⁶Throughout all their journeys, ⁿwhenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. ³⁷But ^oif the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. ³⁸For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.