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Exodus 40:2-33

2 “Set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the first month.

3 Place the ark of the Testimony in it and shield the ark with the curtain.

4 Bring in the table and set out what belongs on it. Then bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

5 Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

6 “Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;

7 place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it.

8 Set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.

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

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

11 Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.

12 “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

13 Then dress Aaron in the sacred garments, anoint him and consecrate him so he may serve me as priest.

14 Bring his sons and dress them in tunics.

15 Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to a priesthood that will continue for all generations to come.”

16 Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded him.

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

18 When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted the crossbars and set up the posts.

19 Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, as the Lord commanded him.

20 He took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it.

21 Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord commanded him.

22 Moses placed the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain

23 and set out the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.

24 He placed 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 commanded him.

26 Moses placed the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting in front of the curtain

27 and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord commanded him.

28 Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

29 He set the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it burnt offerings and grain offerings, as the Lord commanded him.

30 He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing,

31 and Moses and Aaron and his sons used it to wash their hands and feet.

32 They washed whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses.

33 Then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. And so Moses finished the work.

Cross References for Exodus 40:2-33

Numbers 7:1 - Offerings at the Dedication of the Tabernacle When Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he... Click to read the verse Numbers 7:1 Click to read the verse Numbers 7:1

Exodus 30:36 - Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where... Click to read the verse Exodus 30:36 Click to read the verse Exodus 30:36

Exodus 12:1-2 - The Passover The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, Click to read the verse Exodus 12:1-2 Click to read the verse Exodus 12:1-2

Exodus 13:4 - Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving. Click to read the verse Exodus 13:4 Click to read the verse Exodus 13:4

Exodus 27:21 - In the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his so... Click to read the verse Exodus 27:21 Click to read the verse Exodus 27:21

Hebrews 9:2 - A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand, the table and the consecrated br... Click to read the verse Hebrews 9:2 Click to read the verse Hebrews 9:2

Exodus 26:30 - “Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain. Click to read the verse Exodus 26:30 Click to read the verse Exodus 26:30

Exodus 26:1 - The Tabernacle “Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple ... Click to read the verse Exodus 26:1 Click to read the verse Exodus 26:1

Exodus 40:17-19 - So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year. Click to read the verse Exodus 40:17-19 Click to read the verse Exodus 40:17-19

Exodus 36:18 - They made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the tent together as a unit. Click to read the verse Exodus 36:18 Click to read the verse Exodus 36:18

Exodus 35:11 - the tabernacle with its tent and its covering, clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases; Click to read the verse Exodus 35:11 Click to read the verse Exodus 35:11

Exodus 26:7 - “Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether. Click to read the verse Exodus 26:7 Click to read the verse Exodus 26:7

Exodus 40:18 - When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted the c... Click to read the verse Exodus 40:18 Click to read the verse Exodus 40:18

Numbers 9:15 - The Cloud Above the Tabernacle On the day the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up... Click to read the verse Numbers 9:15 Click to read the verse Numbers 9:15

Exodus 40:6 - “Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meet... Click to read the verse Exodus 40:6 Click to read the verse Exodus 40:6

Numbers 10:11 - The Israelites Leave Sinai On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the clo... Click to read the verse Numbers 10:11 Click to read the verse Numbers 10:11

Numbers 1:1 - The Census The Lord spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first d... Click to read the verse Numbers 1:1 Click to read the verse Numbers 1:1

Numbers 9:1 - The Passover The Lord spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second ye... Click to read the verse Numbers 9:1 Click to read the verse Numbers 9:1

2 Chronicles 1:3 - and Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, for God’s Tent of Meeting ... Click to read the verse 2 Chronicles 1:3 Click to read the verse 2 Chronicles 1:3