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Exodus 40

Exo 40:1-38—The tabernacle set up.

Exo 40:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Cf. Exo 25-29.

Israel (history), vs. 1-38; Lev 16:1-34. (Gen 12:2, 3; Rom 11:26.)

Exo 40:2, 17 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.…And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

first month

i.e. April.

Exo 40:29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.

meat

Literally meal.

Exo 40:33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

finished the work

Heb 3:2, 3.

Exo 40:34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Cf. 1Ki 8:10, 11.

cloud covered the tent of the congregation

Lev 16:2; Num 9:15; 1Ki 8:10; 2Ch 5:13.

glory of the LORD

Cf. Ephesians 2:22. What the shekinah glory was to tabernacle and temple, that the Spirit is to the "holy temple," the Church, and to the temple which is the believer's body (1 Corinthians 6:19).

Exo 40:38 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

cloud of the LORD

Neh 9:12; Psa 78:14; Isa 4:5.

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