Exodus 40:16-38

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁷ Thus was the Tabernacle raised up, on the first day of the first month, in the second year.

¹⁸ Then Moses raised up the Tabernacle, and fastened its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars.

¹⁹ And he spread the covering over the Tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁰ And he took and put the Testimony in the Ark, and put the poles in the rings of the Ark, and set the Mercy Seat on top of the Ark.

²¹ He also brought the Ark into the Tabernacle, and hung up the covering veil, and covered the Ark of the Testimony, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²² Furthermore, he put the Table in the Tabernacle of the Congregation on the north side of the Tabernacle, without the veil.

²³ And he set the bread in order before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁴ Also, he put the Lampstand in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, across from the Table, toward the south side of the Tabernacle.

²⁵ And he lit the Lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁶ Moreover, he set the golden Altar in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before the veil.

²⁷ And he burnt sweet incense on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

²⁸ Also, he hung up the veil at the door of the Tabernacle.

²⁹ Afterward, he set the burnt offering Altar outside the door of the Tabernacle (the Tabernacle of the Congregation) and offered the burnt offering and the sacrifice on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³⁰ Likewise, he set the Basin between the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Altar, and poured water in it, with which to wash.

³¹ So, Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and their feet there.

³² When they went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and when they approached to the Altar, they washed, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³³ Finally, he raised up the court all around the Tabernacle and the Altar and hung up the veil at the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

³⁴ Then, the cloud covered the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the Glory of the LORD filled the Tabernacle.

³⁵ So, Moses could not enter into the Tabernacle of the Congregation because the cloud rested on it, and the Glory of the LORD filled the Tabernacle.

³⁶ Now, when the cloud ascended up from the Tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward in all their journeys.

³⁷ But, if the cloud did not ascend, then they did not go out until the day that it ascended.

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.