[1] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [2] "On the first day of the first month
you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting. [3] You shall put the
ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. [4]
You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it.
You shall bring in the lampstand, and light the lamps of it. [5] You shall
set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put
the screen of the door to the tent. [6] You shall set the altar of burnt
offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting. [7] You shall
set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put
water therein. [8] You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the
screen of the gate of the court. [9] You shall take the anointing oil, and
anoint the tent, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its
furniture: and it will be holy. [10] You shall anoint the altar of burnt
offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will
be most holy. [11] You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify
it. [12] You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of
meeting, and shall wash them with water. [13] You shall put on Aaron the
holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may
minister to me in the priest`s office. [14] You shall bring his sons, and
put coats on them. [15] You shall anoint them, as you anointed their
father, that they may minister to me in the priest`s office. Their
anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their
generations. [16] Thus did Moses: according to all that Yahweh commanded
him, so he did. [17] It happened in the first month in the second year, on
the first day of the month, that the tent was raised up. [18] Moses raised
up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards of it, and put in
the bars of it, and raised up its pillars. [19] He spread the covering over
the tent, and put the roof of the tent above on it, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. [20] He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles
on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark. [21] He brought the
ark into the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark
of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses. [22] He put the table in the
tent of meeting, on the side of the tent northward, outside of the veil.
[23] He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. [24] He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the
table, on the side of the tent southward. [25] He lit the lamps before
Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses. [26] He put the golden altar in the tent
of meeting before the veil; [27] and he burnt incense of sweet spices on
it, as Yahweh commanded Moses. [28] He put up the screen of the door to the
tent. [29] He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent of
the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the
meal-offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses. [30] He set the basin between the
tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
[31] Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
[32] When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to
the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses. [33] He raised up the
court around the tent and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of
the court. So Moses finished the work. [34] Then the cloud covered the tent
of meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tent. [35] Moses wasn`t able
to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and
Yahweh`s glory filled the tent. [36] When the cloud was taken up from over
the tent, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their
journeys; [37] but if the cloud wasn`t taken up, then they didn`t travel
until the day that it was taken up. [38] For the cloud of Yahweh was on the
tent by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all
the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
