Exodus 40
1THEN the Lord spoke to Moses saying,
2On the first day of the first month it being then new moon, thou shalt rear up the tabernacle of the testimony
3and place therein the ark of the testimony and cover it with the veil.
4Then thou shalt carry in the table and set in order the service thereof. And thou shalt carry in the candlestick and place on it the lamps:
5and thou shalt set the golden altar, to burn incense, in its place before the ark; and thou shalt hang up the covering curtain at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
6And the altar of homage offerings thou shalt place at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony.
7Then thou shalt surround the tabernacle and hallow all the things belonging to it round about.
9For this purpose thou shalt take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all the things in it and hallow it and all its utensils and they shall be holy.
10And thou shalt anoint the altar of homage offerings and all its utensils and hallow the altar, and this altar shall be a holy of holies.
12Then thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony and wash them with water.
13And thou shalt put the holy robes on Aaron and anoint him and hallow him that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
14Thou shalt then bring forward his sons and clothe them with vestures
15and anoint them as thou didst their father and they shall serve Me as priests. And this unction of the priesthood shall belong to them forever throughout their generations.
16So Moses did all these things. Whatever the Lord commanded him so did he.
17Accordingly, in the first month in the second year of their coming out of Egypt, at the new moon the tabernacle was reared up.
18And when Moses had reared up the tabernacle he put on the capitals and put in the bars and set up the pilasters
19and spread the curtains over the tabernacle and put over it the upper covering of the tabernacle as the Lord commanded Moses.
20Then taking the testimonies he put them in the ark, and put the staves under the ark,
21and carried the ark into the tabernacle and hung up the covering of the veil and covered from view the ark of the testimony in the manner the Lord commanded Moses.
22Then he placed the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, on the north side with out the veil of the tabernacle and set thereon the presence loaves before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses.
24Then he placed the candlestick in the tabernacle of the testimony on the south side of the tabernacle
25and put the lamps thereon before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
26He then placed the golden altar in the tabernacle of the testimony over against the veil
27and burned thereon compound incense as the Lord commanded Moses.
29Then he placed the altar of homage offerings at the doors of the tabernacle
33and reared up the court around the tabernacle and the altar.
34And when Moses had finished all these works the cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord
35so that Moses could not go into the tabernacle of the testimony, because the cloud overshadowed it and with the glory of the Lord the tabernacle was filled.
36Now when the cloud ascended from the tabernacle, the Israelites prepared to march with their baggage.
37But if the cloud did not ascend they did not prepare to march till the day when the cloud ascended.
38For there was a cloud on the tabernacle by day and in the night there was a fire on it in the sight of all Israel throughout all their journeyings.