Exodus

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ↗

²”In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall raise the tabernacle of the testimony, ↗

³and you shall place the ark in it, and you shall release the veil before it. ↗

⁴And having brought in the table, you shall place the things which were solemnly commanded upon it. The lampstand shall stand with its lamps, ↗

⁵and the altar of gold, in which the incense is burned, shall stand before the ark of the testimony. You shall place the tent at the entrance of the tabernacle, ↗

⁶and before it, the altar of holocaust. ↗

⁷The washtub shall stand between the altar and the tabernacle, and you shall fill it with water. ↗

⁸And you shall encompass the atrium and its entrance with hangings. ↗

⁹And, having taken up the oil of unction, you shall anoint the tabernacle along with its articles, so that they may be sanctified. ↗

¹⁰The altar of holocaust and all its vessels, ↗

¹¹the washtub with its base, and all things, you shall consecrate with the oil of unction, so that they may be the Holy of holies. ↗

¹²And you shall bring forward Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tabernacle of the testimony, and, having washed them with water, ↗

¹³you shall clothe them in the holy vestments, so that they may minister to me, and so that their unction may accomplish an everlasting priesthood.“ ↗

¹⁴And Moses did all that the Lord had instructed. ↗

¹⁵Therefore, in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was put in place. ↗

¹⁶And Moses raised it up, and he positioned the panels as well as the bases and the bars, and he set up the columns, ↗

¹⁷and he stretched out the roof over the tabernacle, imposing a cover above it, just as the Lord had decreed. ↗

¹⁸And he placed the testimony in the ark, applying the bars beneath, and the oracle above. ↗

¹⁹And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the veil before it, in order to fulfill the commandment of the Lord. ↗

²⁰And he placed the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, at the north side, beyond the veil, ↗

²¹arranging before it the bread of the presence, just as the Lord had instructed Moses. ↗

²²And he placed the lampstand in the tabernacle of the testimony, away from the table, on the south side, ↗

²³setting the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord. ↗

²⁴He also positioned the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony, opposite the veil, ↗

²⁵and he heaped upon it the incense of aromatics, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. ↗

²⁶And he positioned the tent at the entrance of the tabernacle of the testimony, ↗

²⁷and the altar of holocaust in the vestibule of the testimony, offering the holocaust and the sacrifices upon it, just as the Lord had decreed. ↗

²⁸Likewise, he stationed the washtub between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, filling it with water. ↗

²⁹And Moses and Aaron, along with his sons, washed their hands and feet, ↗

³⁰whenever they would enter the covering of the covenant, and when they approached to the altar, just as the Lord had instructed Moses. ↗

³¹And he raised up the atrium around the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging at its entrance. After all these things were perfected, ↗

³²the cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it. ↗

³³Neither could Moses enter the covering of the covenant: the cloud was covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord was flashing. For the cloud had covered everything. ↗

³⁴Whenever the cloud departed from the tabernacle, the sons of Israel set out by their companies. ↗

³⁵But if it remained hanging over it, they remained in the same place. ↗

³⁶Certainly, the cloud of the Lord lay over the tabernacle by day, and the fire by night, being seen by all the people of Israel throughout all their resting places. ↗