Setting Up the Tabernacle

40 Then the Lord said to Moses:

² “Set up^(A) the tabernacle, the tent of meeting,^(B) on the first day of the first month.^(C)

³ Place the ark^(A) of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.

⁴ Bring in the table^(A) and set out what belongs on it.^(B) Then bring in the lampstand^(C) and set up its lamps.

⁵ Place the gold altar^(A) of incense in front of the ark of the covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

⁹ “Take the anointing oil and anoint^(A) the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings,^(B) and it will be holy.

¹⁰ Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate^(A) the altar, and it will be most holy.

¹⁶ Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded^(A) him.

The Glory of the Lord

³⁴ Then the cloud^(A) covered the tent of meeting, and the glory^(B) of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

³⁵ Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory^(A) of the Lord filled the tabernacle.^(B)