¹ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ² On the first day of the first month will you set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. ³ And you will put in it the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail. ⁴ And you will bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order on it; and you will bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps of it. ⁵ And you will set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle. ⁶ And you will set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. ⁷ And you will set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and will put water in it. ⁸ And you will set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate. ⁹ And you will take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and will holy it, and all the vessels of it: and it will be holy. ¹⁰ And you will anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it will be an altar most holy. ¹¹ And you will anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it. ¹² And you will bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. ¹³ And you will put on Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister to me in the priest's office. ¹⁴ And you will bring his sons, and clothe them with coats ¹⁵ And you will anoint them, as you did anoint their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office: for their anointing will surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations. ¹⁶ So did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he. ¹⁷ 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. ¹⁸ And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards of it, and put in the bars of it, and reared up his pillars. ¹⁹ And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above on it; as the LORD commanded Moses. ²⁰ And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark ²¹ And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses. ²² And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, on the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail. ²³ And he set the bread in order on it before the LORD as the LORD had commanded Moses. ²⁴ And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. ²⁵ And he lighted the lamps before the LORD as the LORD commanded Moses. ²⁶ And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail ²⁷ And he burnt sweet incense thereon as the LORD commanded Moses. ²⁸ And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle. ²⁹ And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses. ³⁰ And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash [withal]. ³¹ And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat ³² When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near to the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses. 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. ³⁴ Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. ³⁵ And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. ³⁶ And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys ³⁷ But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. ³⁸ For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.