Exodus 40:2

“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

In Context

1Then the LORD said to Moses,

3Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:4Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.

Exodus 26:7You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

Exodus 27:21In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.

Exodus 35:11the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;

Exodus 40:6Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 1:1On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:

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 →

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