Exodus 40:8   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.

Exodus 40:11   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.

Exodus 40:12   (Read all of Exodus 40)

"Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

Exodus 40:13   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Then dress Aaron in the sacred garments, anoint him and consecrate him so he may serve me as priest.

Exodus 40:14   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Bring his sons and dress them in tunics.

Exodus 40:15   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations."

Exodus 40:17   (Read all of Exodus 40)

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

Exodus 40:18   (Read all of Exodus 40)

When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted the crossbars and set up the posts.

Exodus 40:19   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, as the Lord commanded him.

Exodus 40:21   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant law, as the Lord commanded him.

Exodus 40:22   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain

Exodus 40:23   (Read all of Exodus 40)

and set out the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.

Exodus 40:24   (Read all of Exodus 40)

He placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle

Exodus 40:25   (Read all of Exodus 40)

and set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.

Exodus 40:29   (Read all of Exodus 40)

He set the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it burnt offerings and grain offerings, as the Lord commanded him.

Exodus 40:31   (Read all of Exodus 40)

and Moses and Aaron and his sons used it to wash their hands and feet.

Exodus 40:33   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. And so Moses finished the work.

Exodus 40:35   (Read all of Exodus 40)

Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:36   (Read all of Exodus 40)

In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out;

Exodus 40:37   (Read all of Exodus 40)

but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out-until the day it lifted.

Exodus 40:38   (Read all of Exodus 40)

So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.

Leviticus 1:1   (Read all of Leviticus 1)

The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting. He said,

Leviticus 1:2   (Read all of Leviticus 1)

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When anyone among you brings an offering to the Lord, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock.

Leviticus 1:3   (Read all of Leviticus 1)

" 'If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the Lord.