Exodus 40:17

And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 reared it up, and placed the boards and the sockets and the bars, and set up the pillars,

18And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:2This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first in the months of the year.

Numbers 7:1And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,

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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