The Tabernacle Erected and Arranged

40 Then the Lord ^(A)spoke to Moses, saying: ² “On the first day of the ^(B)first month you shall set up ^(C)the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. ^3 (D)You shall put in it the ark of the Testimony, and ^[a]partition off the ark with the veil. ^4 (E)You shall bring in the table and ^(F)arrange the things that are to be set in order on it; ^(G)and you shall bring in the lampstand and ^[b]light its lamps. ^5 (H)You shall also set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Testimony, and put up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. ⁶ Then you shall set the ^(I)altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. ⁷ And ^(J)you shall set the laver between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. ⁸ You shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen at the court gate.

⁹ “And you shall take the anointing oil, and ^(K)anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it; and you shall hallow it and all its utensils, and it shall be holy. ¹⁰ You shall ^(L)anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar. ^(M)The altar shall be most holy. ¹¹ And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and consecrate it.

^12 (N)“Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of meeting and wash them with water. ¹³ You shall put the holy ^(O)garments on Aaron, ^(P)and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may minister to Me as priest. ¹⁴ And you shall bring his sons and clothe them with tunics. ¹⁵ You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall surely be ^(Q)an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”

¹⁶ Thus Moses did; according to all that the Lord had commanded him, so he did.

¹⁷ And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the ^(R)tabernacle was ^[c]raised up. ¹⁸ So Moses raised up the tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. ¹⁹ 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. ²⁰ He took ^(S)the Testimony and put it into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark. ²¹ And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, ^(T)hung up the veil of the covering, and partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

^22 (U)He put the table in the tabernacle of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil; ^23 (V)and he set the bread in order upon it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^24 (W)He put the lampstand in the tabernacle of meeting, across from the table, on the south side of the tabernacle; ²⁵ and ^(X)he lit the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^26 (Y)He put the gold altar in the tabernacle of meeting in front of the veil; ^27 (Z)and he burned sweet incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^28 (AA)He hung up the screen at the door of the tabernacle. ^29 (AB)And he put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and ^(AC)offered upon it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^30 (AD)He set the laver between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put water there for washing; ³¹ and Moses, Aaron, and his sons would ^(AE)wash their hands and their feet with water from it. ³² Whenever they went into the tabernacle of meeting, and when they came near the altar, they washed, ^(AF)as the Lord had commanded Moses. ^33 (AG)And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses ^(AH)finished the work.