²⁷ Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the palace, and they gathered the whole battalion about Him.

²⁸ And they stripped off His clothes and put a scarlet robe (^[a]garment of dignity and office worn by Roman officers of rank) upon Him,

²⁹ And, weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on His head and put a reed (staff) in His right hand. And kneeling before Him, they made sport of Him, saying, Hail (greetings, good health to You, long life to You), King of the Jews!

³⁰ And they spat on Him, and took the reed (staff) and struck Him on the head.

³¹ And when they finished making sport of Him, they stripped Him of the robe and put His own garments on Him and led Him away to be crucified.

³² As they were marching forth, they came upon a man of Cyrene named Simon; this man they forced to carry the cross of Jesus.

³³ And when they came to a place called Golgotha [Latin: Calvary], which means The Place of a Skull,

³⁴ They offered Him wine mingled with gall to drink; but when He tasted it, He refused to drink it.

³⁵ And when they had crucified Him, they divided and distributed His garments [among them] by casting lots ^[b]so that the prophet’s saying was fulfilled, They parted My garments among them and over My apparel they cast lots.^(A)

³⁶ Then they sat down there and kept watch over Him.

³⁷ And over His head they put the accusation against Him (^[c]the cause of His death), which read, This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

³⁸ At the same time two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right hand and one on the left.

³⁹ And those who passed by spoke reproachfully and abusively and jeered at Him, wagging their heads,^(B)

⁴⁰ And they said, You Who would tear down the ^[d]sanctuary of the temple and rebuild it in three days, rescue Yourself ^[e]from death. If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

⁴¹ In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, made sport of Him, saying,

⁴² He rescued others ^[f]from death; Himself He cannot rescue ^[g]from death. He is the King of Israel? Let Him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in and ^[h]acknowledge and cleave to Him.

⁴³ He trusts in God; let God deliver Him now if He cares for Him and will have Him, for He said, I am the Son of God.

⁴⁴ And the robbers who were crucified with Him also abused and reproached and made sport of Him in the same way.

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40 And the Lord said to Moses,

² On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting [of God with you].

³ And you shall put in it the ark of the Testimony and screen the ark [of God’s Presence] with the veil.^(A)

⁴ You shall bring in the [showbread] table and set in order the things that are to be upon it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up and light its lamps.^(B)

⁵ You shall set the golden altar for the incense before the ark of the Testimony [outside the veil] and put the hanging or screen at the tabernacle door.

⁶ You shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

⁷ And you shall ^[a]set the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it.

⁸ And you shall set up the court [curtains] round about and hang up the hanging or screen at the court gate.

⁹ You shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall consecrate it and all its furniture, and it shall be holy.

¹⁰ You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; and consecrate (set apart for God) the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

¹¹ And you shall anoint the laver and its base and consecrate it.

¹² You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.^(C)

¹³ You shall put on Aaron the holy garments, and anoint and consecrate him, so he may serve Me as priest.

¹⁴ And you shall bring his sons and put long and sleeved tunics on them,

¹⁵ And you shall anoint them as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

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

¹⁷ And on the first day of the first month in the second year the tabernacle was erected.

¹⁸ Moses set up the tabernacle, laid its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and erected its pillars.

¹⁹ [Moses] spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded him.

²⁰ He took the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] and put it into the ark, and set the poles [in the rings] on the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.

²¹ [Moses] brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen and screened the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded him.

²² Moses put the table [of showbread] in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the veil;

²³ He set the bread [of the Presence] in order on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.^(D)

²⁴ And he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle.

²⁵ Moses set up and lighted the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.

²⁶ He put the golden altar [of incense] in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;

²⁷ He burned sweet incense [symbol of prayer] upon it, as the Lord commanded him.^(E)

²⁸ And he set up the hanging or screen at the door of the tabernacle.

²⁹ [Moses] put the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting and offered on it the burnt offering and the cereal offering, as the Lord commanded him.

³⁰ And Moses set the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

³¹ And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.

³² When they went into the Tent of Meeting or came near the altar, they washed, as the Lord commanded Moses.

³³ And he erected the court round about the tabernacle and the altar and set up the hanging or screen at the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

³⁴ Then the cloud [the Shekinah, God’s visible presence] covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle!^(F)

³⁵ And Moses was not able to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud remained upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

³⁶ In all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the Israelites went onward;

³⁷ But if the cloud was not taken up, they did not journey on till the day that it was taken up.

³⁸ For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.