Exodus 40:1–16

The Tabernacle Erected and Its Equipment Installed

⁴⁰The Lord spoke to Moses, ²“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.^{* 3}You shall put in it the ark of the covenant, and you shall screen the ark with the curtain.^{* 4}You shall bring in the table and arrange its setting, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. ⁵You shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant and set up the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle. ⁶You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting ⁷and place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it. ⁸You shall set up the court all around and hang up the screen for the gate of the court. ⁹Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it shall become holy.^{* 10}You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils and consecrate the altar, so that the altar shall be most holy.^{* 11}You shall also anoint the basin with its stand and consecrate it. ¹²Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water^{* 13}and put on Aaron the sacred vestments, and you shall anoint him and consecrate him, so that he may serve me as priest.^{* 14}You shall bring his sons also and put tunics on them ¹⁵and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests; their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout all their generations.”^*

¹⁶Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded him.