Exodus 40:17–38

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.