Exodus 40:2

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Exodus 40:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then the LORD said to Moses,

2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

3 Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

4 Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps.

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Exodus 40:17

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

Exodus 12:1

Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 12:2

“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

Exodus 13:4

Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.

Numbers 7:1

On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.

Exodus 40:6

Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 40:18

When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.

Exodus 40:19

Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.

Exodus 26:1

“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Exodus 26:7

You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

Exodus 26:30

So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

Exodus 27:21

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.

Exodus 30:36

Grind some of it into fine powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

Exodus 35:11

the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;

Exodus 36:18

He also made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a unit.