Exodus 40:17

and he stretched out the roof over the tabernacle, imposing a cover above it, just as the Lord had decreed.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

16And Moses raised it up, and he positioned the panels as well as the bases and the bars, and he set up the columns,

18And he placed the testimony in the ark, applying the bars beneath, and the oracle above.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:2“This month will be for you the beginning of the months. It will be first in the months of the year.

Numbers 7:1Now it happened in the day when Moses completed the tabernacle, and he set it up, and he anointed and sanctified it with all of its vessels, and similarly the altar and all of its vessels,

Matthew Henry on Exodus 40:17-34

16 Thus 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 thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. 19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses. 20 And he took and put the… Read the whole commentary →

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