Exodus 40:17-38

Lexham English Bible

¹⁷ In^[a] the first month of the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was set up. ¹⁸ And Moses raised the tabernacle, and he placed its bases, and he set up its frames,^[b] and he placed its bars, and he raised its pillars. ¹⁹ And he spread the tent over the tabernacle; he placed the covering of the tent over it, above it, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ²⁰ And he took and he put the testimony into the ark, and he placed the poles on the ark, and he put the atonement cover on the ark, above it. ²¹ And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and he set up the curtain of the screening, and he shielded the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²² And he put the table in the tent of assembly on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain. ²³ And he arranged on it an arrangement of bread before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ²⁴ And he placed the lampstand in the tent of assembly opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle. ²⁵ And he set up the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ²⁶ And he placed the gold altar in the tent of assembly before the curtain. ²⁷ And he turned fragrant incense into smoke on it, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁸ And he set up the entrance screen for the tabernacle. ²⁹ And the altar of burnt offering he placed at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of assembly, and he offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ³⁰ And he placed the basin between the tent of assembly and the altar, and he put there water for washing. ³¹ And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet from it. ³² At their going into the tent of assembly and at their approaching the altar, they washed, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³³ And he set up the courtyard all around the tabernacle and the altar, and he put up the screen of the gate of the courtyard, and Moses completed the work. ³⁴ And the cloud covered the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. ³⁵ And Moses was unable to go into the tent of assembly because the cloud settled on it and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. ³⁶ And when the cloud was lifted from the tabernacle, the Israelites^[c] set out on all their journeys. ³⁷ But if the cloud was not lifted, they did not set out until the day of its being lifted. ³⁸ For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night before the eyes of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.