¹⁷ So the Tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

Offerings of Dedication

7 On the day Moses set up the Tabernacle, he anointed it and set it apart as holy. He also anointed and set apart all its furnishings and the altar with its utensils.

The Second Passover

9 A year after Israel’s departure from Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. In the first month^[a] of that year he said,

The Tabernacle Completed

40 Then the Lord said to Moses, ² “Set up the Tabernacle^[a] on the first day of the new year.^[b]