The Tabernacle Erected and Arranged

40 Then the Lord aspoke to Moses, saying: 2 “On the first day of the bfirst month you shall set up cthe tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 3 dYou shall put in it the ark of the Testimony, and 1partition off the ark with the veil. 4 eYou shall bring in the table and farrange the things that are to be set in order on it; gand you shall bring in the lampstand and 2light its lamps. 5 hYou shall also set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Testimony, and put up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. 6 Then you shall set the ialtar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 7 And jyou shall set the laver between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. 8 You shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen at the court gate.

9 “And you shall take the anointing oil, and kanoint the tabernacle and all that is in it; and you shall hallow it and all its utensils, and it shall be holy. 10 You shall lanoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar. mThe altar shall be most holy. 11 And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and consecrate it.

12 n“Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of meeting and wash them with water. 13 You shall put the holy ogarments on Aaron, pand anoint him and consecrate him, that he may minister to Me as priest. 14 And you shall bring his sons and clothe them with tunics. 15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall surely be qan everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”

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

17 And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the rtabernacle was 3raised up. 18 So Moses raised up the tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. 19 And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 20 He took sthe Testimony and put it into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark. 21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, thung up the veil of the covering, and partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.