Exodus 40:2

In the day of the first month, in the first of the month, thou shalt uprear the tabernacle, the tabernacle of ordinance.

Targum Onkelos

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

1And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying,

3And thou shalt set there the ark of the testimony, and outspread the veil before the ark;

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Cross References

Exodus 13:4This day have you come out, in the month of Abiba.

Exodus 26:7And thou shalt make curtains of goat’s (hair) to stretch over the tabernacle; eleven curtains thou shalt make them.

Exodus 27:21In the tabernacle of ordinance, without the veil that is before the testimony, Aharon and his sons shall set it in order from evening to morning before the Lord; a perpetual statute for the generations of the sons of Israel.

Exodus 35:11The tabernacle, its tent and its coverings, its hasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases.

Exodus 40:6And thou shalt put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of ordinance.

Numbers 1:1And the Lord spake with Mosheh in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of ordinance, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their coming out from the land of Mizraim, saying:

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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