Exodus 40:2
“On the first day of the first month of the new year you must set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
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In Context
1Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
3You must place the ark of the testimony in it, and you must shield the ark with the curtain.
Cross References
Exodus 13:4You are going out of Egypt on this day, in the month of Aviv.
Exodus 26:7You must make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle. You must make eleven of these curtains.
Exodus 27:21In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the tabernacle that contains the ark of testimony, Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning before Yahweh, from evening to morning. This requirement will be a lasting ordinance throughout the generations of the people of Israel.
Exodus 35:11the tabernacle with its tent, its covering, its clasps, frames, bars, posts, and bases;
Exodus 40:6You must put the altar for burnt offerings in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
Numbers 1:1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai. This happened on the first day of the second month during the second year after the people of Israel had come out from the land of Egypt. Yahweh 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 →