Exodus 39:32–40:38

³²Thus all the service of constructing the ¹tabernacle of the tent of meeting was ^acompleted; and the sons of Israel did according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses; so they did.

³³They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its ¹furnishings: its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars and its bases;

³⁴and the covering of rams’ skins ¹dyed red, and the covering of porpoise skins, and the screening veil;

³⁵the ark of the testimony and its poles and the ¹mercy seat;

³⁶the table, all its utensils, and the bread of the ¹Presence;

³⁷the pure gold lampstand, ¹with its arrangement of lamps and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

³⁸and the gold altar, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the veil for the doorway of the tent;

³⁹the ¹bronze altar and its ²bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils, the laver and its stand;

⁴⁰the hangings for the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pegs, and all the ¹equipment for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

⁴¹the woven garments for ministering in the holy place and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.

⁴²Thus, according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did in all their service.

⁴³And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; just as Yahweh had commanded, so they had done. Then Moses ^ablessed them.

CHAPTER 40

Setting Up the Tabernacle

¹Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

²“^aOn the first day of the first month you shall set up the ¹tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

³“^aYou shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

⁴“You shall ^abring in the table and ^1barrange what belongs on it; and you shall ^cbring in the lampstand and ²mount its lamps.

⁵“Moreover, you shall ^aset the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.

⁶“You shall set the altar of burnt offering in front of the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

⁷“You shall ^aset the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water ¹in it.

⁸“You shall set up the court all around and ¹hang up the screen for the gateway of the court.

⁹“Then you shall take the anointing oil and ^aanoint the tabernacle and all that is in it and set it apart as holy and all its ¹furnishings; and it shall be holy.

¹⁰“You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and set the altar apart as holy, and ^athe altar shall be most holy.

¹¹“You shall anoint the laver and its stand, and set it apart as holy.

¹²“Then you shall ^abring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

¹³“^aYou shall put the holy garments on Aaron and anoint him and set him apart as holy, that he may minister as a priest to Me.

¹⁴“You shall bring his sons and put tunics on them;

¹⁵and you shall anoint them even as you have anointed their father, that they may minister as priests to Me; and their anointing will be for them for a ^aperpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”

¹⁶Thus Moses did; according to all that Yahweh had commanded him, so he did.

¹⁷Now ^ait happened, in the first month ¹of the second year, on the first day of the month, the ²tabernacle was erected.

¹⁸Moses erected the tabernacle and ¹laid its bases and set up its boards and ²inserted its bars and erected its pillars.

¹⁹He spread the tent over the tabernacle and placed the covering of the tent ¹on top of it, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁰Then he took ^athe testimony and put it into the ark and ¹attached the poles to the ark and put the ²mercy seat ³on top of the ark.

²¹He brought the ark into the tabernacle and ^aplaced the veil of the screen and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²²Then he ^aput the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

²³He set the arrangement of ^abread in order on it before Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁴Then he placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.

²⁵He ^alighted the lamps before Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁶Then he ^aplaced the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the veil;

²⁷and he ^aburned fragrant incense on it, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁸Then he placed the screen at the doorway of the tabernacle.

²⁹He ^aplaced the altar of burnt offering before the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and he ^boffered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³⁰He placed the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

^31aFrom it Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.

³²When they entered the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³³He ^aerected the court all around the ¹tabernacle and the altar, and he put up the screen for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.

The Glory of Yahweh

^34aThen the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the ^bglory of Yahweh ^cfilled the tabernacle.

³⁵And Moses ^awas not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had dwelt on it, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle.

³⁶Now throughout all their journeys ^awhenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;

³⁷but ^aif the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day when it was taken up.

³⁸For throughout all their journeys, ^athe cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.