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The Book of Exodus 40

40 Then Yahweh said to Moses, 2 “Set up the sacred tent where you will meet with me on the first day of the first month of the year. 3 Put inside it the sacred chest containing the stone slabs with the Ten Commandments. Hide it by hanging its curtain in front of it. 4 Bring the table into the sacred tent and neatly organize on it all the things that they made for it. Then bring in the lampstand and put the lamps up into it. 5 Put the gold altar for burning incense in front of the sacred chest, and set up the curtain at the entrance of the sacred tent. 6 Put the altar for burning sacrifices in front of the entrance to the sacred tent where you will meet with me. 7 Put the washbasin between the sacred tent and the altar, and fill it with water. 8 Hang the curtains around the outside to make the courtyard, and also hang up the courtyard’s entrance curtain.

9 Then take the oil for anointing and put it on the sacred tent and everything that is in it, to consecrate it all to me. Then it will be dedicated to me. 10 Also put some of the oil on the altar on which the priests will burn the sacrifices and on all the things that they will use at the altar. This will consecrate the altar to me. Then it will be scared, dedicated to me. 11 Also put some of the oil on the washbasin and its base, to consecrate them to me.

12 Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the sacred tent and wash them with water. 13 Then set Aaron apart for serving me as a priest by putting his sacred vestments on him and by pouring oil on him. 14 Also bring Aaron’s sons and put their special tunics on them, 15 then pour oil on them just as you did on their father. This will consecrate them to serve me as priests. By pouring oil on them, you will cause them and their descendants to be priests throughout all their future generations.”

16 Moses did all these things exactly as Yahweh had commanded him to do.

17 On the first day of the first month of Israel’s second year, the people set up the sacred tent. 18 Moses set up the sacred tent, and its bases, frames, crossbars, and posts. 19 He spread out the two layers of coverings over the sacred tent, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 20 Then Moses took the two stone slabs on which Yahweh had written his commandments and put them into the sacred chest. He put the carrying poles into the rings on the chest and put the lid on top of it. 21 Then Moses took the chest into the Holy Place inside the sacred tent. He hung the thick curtain to conceal the chest containing the commandments, exactly as Yahweh had commanded him. 22 He set the table inside the sacred tent, on its north side, outside the curtain that hid the sacred chest. 23 He laid out the bread neatly on the table to display it before Yahweh, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses to do. 24 He set the lampstand inside the sacred tent, on the south side, on the opposite side from the table. 25 Then he set the lamps on the lampstand in Yahweh’s presence, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 26 He set the gold altar for burning incense inside the sacred tent, in front of the curtain that hid the Most Holy Place. 27 He burned some sweet-smelling incense on it, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 28 He hung the curtain at the entrance to the sacred tent. 29 At the entrance to the sacred tent where they would meet with Yahweh, he placed the altar for burning sacrifices. Then he sacrificed meat and flour by burning them on it, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 30 He set the washbasin between the sacred tent and the bronze altar, and filled the washbasin with water. 31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons would wash their hands and feet in the washbasin. 32 Whenever they went into the sacred tent and whenever they came close to the altar, they would wash themselves, exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 33 He hung up the curtains that surrounded the sacred tent and the altar and the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. Then Moses was finished building the sacred tent complex.

34 Then the tall cloud covered the sacred tent, and Yahweh’s power and brilliant light filled the sacred tent. 35 Because the cloud covered it and Yahweh’s light was very bright, Moses was not able to enter the sacred tent. 36 From that day, whenever Yahweh’s cloud moved off of the sacred, tent the Israelites would pack their camp and start traveling. 37 But if the cloud did not move, they stayed where they were and waited for a day that the cloud moved. 38 Wherever the Israelites traveled, Yahweh’s cloud was above the sacred tent during the day, and his fire was over it at night. The Israelites could always see that Yahweh was with them.

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