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Exodus 40 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Setting Up the Tabernacle

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:3 - Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:4 - Bring in the table and set out what belongs on it. Then bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:6 - “Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:7 - place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:8 - Set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:9 - “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:10 - Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it will be most holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:11 - Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:12 - “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:13 - Then dress Aaron in the sacred garments, anoint him and consecrate him so he may serve me as priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:14 - Bring his sons and dress them in tunics.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:15 - 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 throughout their generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:16 - Moses did everything just as the LORD commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:17 - So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:18 - When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted the crossbars and set up the posts.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:19 - Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, as the LORD commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:20 - He took the tablets of the covenant law and placed them in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:21 - Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant law, as the LORD commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:23 - and set out the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:24 - He placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:25 - and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:26 - Moses placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:27 - and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:28 - Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:29 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:30 - He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:31 - and Moses and Aaron and his sons used it to wash their hands and feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:32 - They washed whenever they entered the tent of meeting or approached the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:33 - 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.

The Glory of the Lord

(Exo 13:21, 22; Num 9:15–23 )
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:34 - Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:35 - Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:36 - In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:37 - but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:38 - So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.
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