Exodus, 40
The tabernacle is commanded to be set up and anointed. God filleth it with his majesty.
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
[2] The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the testimony, •
[3] And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before it:
[4] And thou shalt bring in the table, and set upon it the things that are commanded according to the rite. The candlestick shall stand with its lamps,
[5] And the altar of gold, whereon the incense is burnt before the ark of the testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle,
[6] And before it the altar of holocaust.
[7] The laver between the altar and the tabernacle, and thou shalt fill it with water.
[8] And thou shalt encompass the court with hangings, and the entry thereof.
[9] And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the tabernacle with its vessels, that they may be sanctified:
[10] The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:
[11] The laver with its foot: thou shalt consecrate all with the oil of unction, that they may be most holy.
[12] And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and having washed them with water,
[13] Thou shalt put on them the holy vestments, that they may minister to me, and that the unction of them may prosper to an everlasting priesthood. •
[14] And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded.
[15] So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.
[16] And Moses reared it up, and placed the boards and the sockets and the bars, and set up the pillars, •
[17] And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded. •
[18] And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above. •
[19] And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the veil before it to fulfil the commandment of the Lord.
[20] And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, at the north side, without the veil,
[21] Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord had commanded Moses. •
[22] He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony, over against the table on the south side,
[23] Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord.
[24] He set also the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony, over against the veil, •
[25] And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
[26] And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,
[27] And the altar of holocaust in the entry of the testimony, offering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the Lord had commanded.
[28] And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, filling it with water. •
[29] And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet,
[30] When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
[31] He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were perfected,
[32] The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it. •
[33] Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the cloud covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the cloud had covered all. •
[34] If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward by their troops:
[35] If it hung over, they remained in the same place.
[36] For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a fire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout all their mansions. •