Exodus 40:2

On the first day of the first month thou shall raise up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

In Context

1And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

3And thou shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and thou shall screen the ark with the veil.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:4This day ye go forth in the month Abib.

Exodus 26:7And thou shall make curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle. Eleven curtains thou shall make them.

Exodus 27:21in the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony. Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before LORD. It shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the

Exodus 35:11the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets,

Exodus 40:6And thou shall set the altar of burnt-offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 1:1And LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Matthew Henry on Exodus 40:2-16

The Rearing of the Tabernacle. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. 3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail. 4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof. 5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the… Read the whole commentary →

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