Moses Sets Up the Tabernacle—Ex. 40:1-3, 16-38

<p><strong>Exodus 40:1–3 (NKJV)</strong></p><p><strong>1</strong> Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: <strong>2</strong> “On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. <strong>3</strong> You shall put in it the ark of the Testimony, and partition off the ark with the veil.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Exodus 40:16–38 (NKJV)</strong></p><p><strong>16</strong> Thus Moses did; according to all that the Lord had commanded him, so he did.</p><p><strong>17</strong> And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first <em>day</em> of the month, <em>that</em> the tabernacle was raised up. <strong>18</strong> So Moses raised up the tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. <strong>19</strong> 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. <strong>20</strong> He took the Testimony and put <em>it</em> into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark. <strong>21</strong> And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung up the veil of the covering, and partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.</p><p><strong>22</strong> He put the table in the tabernacle of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil; <strong>23</strong> and he set the bread in order upon it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. <strong>24</strong> He put the lampstand in the tabernacle of meeting, across from the table, on the south side of the tabernacle; <strong>25</strong> and he lit the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. <strong>26</strong> He put the gold altar in the tabernacle of meeting in front of the veil; <strong>27</strong> and he burned sweet incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. <strong>28</strong> He hung up the screen <em>at</em> the door of the tabernacle. <strong>29</strong> And he put the altar of burnt offering <em>before</em> the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses. <strong>30</strong> He set the laver between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put water there for washing; <strong>31</strong> and Moses, Aaron, and his sons would wash their hands and their feet <em>with water</em> from it. <strong>32</strong> Whenever they went into the tabernacle of meeting, and when they came near the altar, they washed, as the Lord had commanded Moses. <strong>33</strong> And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.</p><p><strong>34</strong> Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. <strong>35</strong> And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. <strong>36</strong> Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys. <strong>37</strong> But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till the day that it was taken up. <strong>38</strong> For the cloud of the Lord <em>was</em> above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.</p>