Exodus 40:2

'On the first day of the month, in the first month, thou dost raise up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,

Young's Literal Translation

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 Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

3and hast set there the ark of the testimony, and hast covered over the ark with the vail,

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Cross References

Exodus 13:4To-day ye are going out, in the month of Abib.

Exodus 26:7'And thou hast made curtains of goats' [hair], for a tent over the tabernacle; thou dost make eleven curtains:

Exodus 27:21in the tent of meeting, at the outside of the vail, which [is] over the testimony, doth Aaron — his sons also — arrange it from evening till morning before Jehovah — a statute age-during to their generations, from the sons of Israel.

Exodus 35:11'The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its hooks, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets,

Exodus 40:6and hast put the altar of the burnt-offering before the opening of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,

Numbers 1:1And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going 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 →

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