Exodus 40:1
And the Lord said to Moses,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
In Context
2On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting.
Cross References
Exodus 31:7The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent,
Exodus 39:32So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it.
1 Chronicles 21:29For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 40:1
In this chapter, I. Orders are given for the setting up of the tabernacle and the fixing of all the appurtenances of it in their proper places ( ver. 1-8 ), and the consecrating of it ( ver. 9-11 ), and of the priests, ver. 12-15 . II. Care is taken to do all this, and as it was appointed to be done, ver. 16-33 . III. God takes possession of it by the cloud, ver. 34 , &c. Read the whole commentary →