Exodus 40:1-27 ▼

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “On the first day of the month, in the first month, you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

3 And you shall put there the ark of the Testimony, and you shall cover over the ark with the veil.

4 And you shall bring in the table, and you shall arrange its arrangement, and you shall bring in the lampstand, and you shall set up its lamps.

5 And you shall set the gold altar for incense before the face of the ark of the Testimony, and you shall put up the screen of the door for the tabernacle.

6 And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the face of the door of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

7 And you shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and between the altar, and you shall set water there.

8 And you shall put up the court all around, and you shall set up the screen of the gate of the court.

9 And you shall take the anointing oil, and you shall anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and you shall sanctify it and all its vessels, and it shall be holy.

10 And you shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its vessels, and you shall sanctify the altar, and the altar shall be holy of holies.

11 And you shall anoint the basin and its stand, and you shall sanctify it.

12 And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and you shall wash them with the water.

13 And you shall clothe Aaron with the holy garments, and you shall anoint him, and you shall sanctify him, and he shall minister as priest to Me.

14 And you shall bring his sons, and you shall clothe them with tunics.

15 And you shall anoint them as you anointed their father, and they shall minister as priests to Me. And their anointing shall surely be to them an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”

16 And Moses did according to all that YHWH had commanded him; so he did.

17 And it came to pass, in the first month of the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.

18 And Moses raised up the tabernacle, and he set its bases, and he put its boards, and he set its bars, and he raised up its pillars.

19 And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle, and he put the covering of the tent on it from above, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

20 And he took and he set the Testimony into the ark, and he put the poles on the ark, and he set the mercy seat on the ark from above.

21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and he put up the veil of the screen, and he covered over the ark of the Testimony, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

22 And he set the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

23 And he arranged on it an arrangement of bread before the face of YHWH, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

24 And he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.

25 And he lit the lamps before the face of YHWH, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

26 And he put the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting before the face of the veil.

27 And he burned on it incense of spices, as YHWH had commanded Moses.