Exodus 40:2
On the first day of the month, in the first month, shalt thou rear the habitation, of the tent of meeting;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
1Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying—
3and thou shalt put therein, the ark of the testimony,—and shalt screen the ark with the veil;
Cross References
Exodus 13:4To-day, are, ye, coming forth,—in the month Abib.
Exodus 26:7And thou shalt make curtains of goat’s hair, for a tent, over the habitation—eleven curtains, shalt thou make them.
Exodus 27:21In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is by the testimony, shall Aaron and his sons order it from evening until morning, before Yahweh,—a statute age-abiding, to their generations, from the sons of Israel.
Exodus 35:11the habitation, its tent, and its covering,—its clasps its boards, and its bars its pillars, and its sockets:
Exodus 40:6and thou shalt place the altar for the ascending-sacrifice,—before the opening of the habitation of the tent of meeting;
Numbers 1:1Then spake Yahweh unto Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tent of meeting,—on the first of the second month in the second year by their coming forth out of the land of Egypt 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 →