Shemot 40

Then God spoke to Moses directly.

In the first month, on the first day of it, erect the tabernacle of the tent of the assembly.

And place therein the ark of the testimony, and screen over it with the curtain.

Then bring in the table, and arrange its two rows; and bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps.

Then place the altar of gold for incense before the ark of the testimony, and hang the screen of the entrance of the tent of the tabernacle.

Then place the altar of offerings before the tent of the assembly.

Then place the basin between the tent of the assembly and the altar, and put water in it.

Then pitch the courtyard enclosure all around, and hang the screen of its gate.

Then take from the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it, and all its vessels — and it shall become holy.

And anoint the altar of the offering and all its vessels, and consecrate it — and it shall become of the choicest of the holy things.

And anoint the basin and its base, and consecrate the two of them.

And bring forward Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of the assembly, and wash them with water.

And clothe Aaron in the garments of holiness, and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may lead for Me.

And bring forward his sons, and clothe them in tunics.

And anoint them as you anointed their father, that they may lead for Me; and that anointing of theirs shall be for them a priesthood forever, unto their generations.

And Moses did according to all that God had commanded him therein.

Then, when it was in the first month of the second year, on the first day of it, the tabernacle was erected.

The first thing Moses did in erecting it: he set down its bases, and fitted upon them its planks, and placed in it its bars, and stood up its pillars.

Then he spread the tent over it, and placed the covering over it from above — as God had commanded him.

Then he took the testimony and placed it in the ark, and set the carrying-poles upon it, and placed the cover over it from above.

Then he brought it into the tabernacle, and hung the screening curtain, and screened over it — as God had commanded him.

Then he placed the table in the tent of the assembly, on the northern side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain.

And he arranged upon it two rows of bread before God — as He had commanded him.

Then he placed the lampstand in the tent of the assembly, opposite the table, on the southern side of the tabernacle.

And he lit the lamps before God — as He had commanded him.

Then he placed the golden altar in the tent of the assembly, before the curtain.

And he burned incense upon it from the incense of resins — as God had commanded him.

Then he hung the screen of the entrance upon the tabernacle.

And he placed the altar at the entrance of the tent of the assembly, and offered upon it the offering and the gift — as God had commanded him.

Then he placed the basin between the tent of the assembly and the altar, and put in it water for washing.

And from it Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet —

upon their entering the tent of the assembly, and upon their approaching the altar, they would wash — as God had commanded Moses.

Then he pitched the courtyard enclosure around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung the screen of its gate; and Moses completed all the work.

Then the cloud covered the tent of the assembly, and the light of God filled the tabernacle.

And Moses was not able to enter the tent of the assembly, because the cloud had settled upon it and the light of God filled the tabernacle.

And whenever the cloud rose up from the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would journey through all their journeyings.

And if it did not rise, they would not journey — only on the day it rose.

For a cloud from God was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire would be in it by night, before the sons of Israel throughout all their journeyings.