Exodus Chapter 40    

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  ²“On the first day of the first month you are to raise up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
  ³You are to put the ark of the testimony in it, and you are to screen the ark with the curtain.
  ⁴You are to bring in the table and set in order the things that are on it. You are to bring in the menorah and light its lamps.
  ⁵You are to set the golden altar of incense before the ark of the testimony and put up the screen for the entrance to the tabernacle.
  ⁶“You are to set the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
  ⁷You are to set the bronze basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and are to put water in it.
  ⁸You are to set up the courtyard around it and hang up the screen of the gate of the courtyard.”
 

⁹“You are to take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and are to sanctify it, and all its furniture; and it will be holy.
  ¹⁰You are to anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its utensils, and sanctify the altar; and the altar will be most holy.
  ¹¹You are to anoint the bronze basin and its base, and sanctify it.
 

¹²“You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and are to wash them with water.
  ¹³You are to put the holy garments on Aaron, and you are to anoint him and sanctify him, so that he may serve me as priest.
  ¹⁴You are to bring his sons and put tunics on them.
  ¹⁵You are to anoint them as you anointed their father, so that they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”
 

¹⁶So Moses did those things. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
  ¹⁷And in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.
  ¹⁸Moses raised up the tabernacle and placed its bases, and set up its boards, and put in its bars and raised up its pillars.
  ¹⁹He spread the covering over the tent and put the roof of the tabernacle on top of it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
 

²⁰He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and attached the poles to the ark and put the mercy seat over the ark.
  ²¹He brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung up the curtain for the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony as Yahweh commanded Moses.
 

²²He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the curtain.
  ²³He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  ²⁴He put the menorah in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle,
  ²⁵and he lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
 

²⁶He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting in front of the curtain,
  ²⁷and he burned incense made of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  ²⁸He hung up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
  ²⁹He set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
 

³⁰He set the bronze basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in for washing.
  ³¹Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
  ³²When they went into the Tent of Meeting and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
 

³³He set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar and set up the screen for the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.
 

³⁴Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle.
  ³⁵Moses was not able to enter into the Tent of Meeting because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
 

³⁶When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward throughout all their journeys;
  ³⁷but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not travel until the day that it was taken up.
  ³⁸For throughout all their journeys the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.