Exodus 40:17

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

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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

16Moses did everything just as the LORD had commanded him.

18When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:2“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

Numbers 7:1On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.

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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