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

Moses Commands Obedience

4 “So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.^(A)

¹⁷ In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up. ¹⁸ Moses set up the tabernacle; he laid its bases and set up its frames and put in its poles and raised up its pillars, ¹⁹ and he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁰ He took the covenant and put it into the ark and put the poles on the ark and set the cover above the ark,^{(A) 21} and he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the curtain for screening and screened the ark of the covenant as the Lord had commanded Moses.^{(B) 22} He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain,^{(C) 23} and set the bread in order on it before the Lord as the Lord had commanded Moses.^{(D) 24} He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, ²⁵ and set up the lamps before the Lord as the Lord had commanded Moses.^{(E) 26} He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the curtain^{(F) 27} and offered fragrant incense on it as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁸ He also put in place the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle.^{(G) 29} He set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering as the Lord had commanded Moses. ³⁰ He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing,^{(H) 31} with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet. ³² When they went into the tent of meeting and when they approached the altar, they washed as the Lord had commanded Moses.^(I)

² Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”^[a]

²⁰ for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!^(A)

^32 [a]You must diligently observe everything that I command you; do not add to it or take anything from it.^(A)

⁴² The Israelites had done all of the work as the Lord had commanded Moses. ⁴³ When Moses saw that they had done all the work as the Lord had commanded, he blessed them.^(A)

²¹ Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.^(A)

²² “But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.^(B)