Exodus 39:32–40:38

³²Thus all the work of the ¹tabernacle of the tent of meeting was completed; and the sons of Israel did according to all that the Lord 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 ²sockets;

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 bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils, the laver and its stand;

⁴⁰the hangings for the court, its pillars and its ¹sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pegs and all the ²equipment 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.

⁴²So the sons of Israel did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

⁴³And Moses ¹examined all the work and behold, they had done it; just as the Lord had commanded, this they had done. So Moses ^ablessed them.

Chapter 40

The Tabernacle Erected

¹Then the Lord 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 veil 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 shall consecrate it and all its ¹furnishings; and it shall be holy.

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

¹¹“You shall anoint the laver and its stand, and consecrate it.

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 consecrate him, 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 ¹qualify them for a ^aperpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”

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

¹⁷Now ^ain 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 ²sockets, and set up its boards, and inserted its bars and erected its pillars.

¹⁹He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent ¹on top of it, just as the Lord 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 ^aset up a veil for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the Lord 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 the Lord, just as the Lord 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 the Lord, just as the Lord 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 the Lord had commanded Moses.

²⁸Then he set up the ¹veil for the doorway of the tabernacle.

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

³³He ^aerected the court all around the ¹tabernacle and the altar, and ²hung up the veil for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.

The Glory of the Lord

^34aThen the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the ^bglory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

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

³⁶Throughout 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 the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.