Exodus 40:5
Place the gold altar of incense in front of the Ark of the Testimony, and put up the screen at the entrance to the Tabernacle.
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4Bring in the table and put on it what's necessary. Bring in the lampstand too, and set up its lamps.
6Set up the altar of burnt offering opposite the entrance to the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
Cross References
Exodus 26:36Make a screen for the entrance to the tent using blue, purple, and crimson thread, and finely-spun linen. Have it embroidered.
Exodus 30:6Put the altar in front of the veil that hangs before the Ark of the Testimony and the atonement cover that is over the Testimony where I will meet with you.
Exodus 37:25He made the altar for burning incense from acacia wood. It was square, measuring a cubit by a cubit, by two cubits high, with horns on its corners that were all one piece with the altar.
John 14:6Jesus replied, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Hebrews 10:19Now we have the confidence, brothers and sisters, to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus.
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 →