the bronze altar and its bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils, the laver and its stand;
the hangings for the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pegs and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;
the woven garments for ministering in the holy place and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.
So the sons of Israel did all the work according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses.
And Moses examined all the work and behold, they had done it; just as the LORD had commanded, this they had done. So Moses blessed them.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
You shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
You shall bring in the table and arrange what belongs on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and mount its lamps.
Moreover, you shall set the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.
You shall set the altar of burnt offering in front of the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
You shall set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it.
You shall set up the court all around and hang up the veil for the gateway of the court.
Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall consecrate it and all its furnishings; and it shall be holy.
You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.
You shall anoint the laver and its stand, and consecrate it.
Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
You shall put the holy garments on Aaron and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may minister as a priest to Me.
Thus Moses did; according to all that the LORD had commanded him, so he did.
Now in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.
Moses erected the tabernacle and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and inserted its bars and erected its pillars.
He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Then he took the testimony and put it into the ark, and attached the poles to the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.
He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up a veil for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Then he put the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.
He set the arrangement of bread in order on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Then he placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
He lighted the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Then he placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the veil;
and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Then he set up the veil for the doorway of the tabernacle.
He set the altar of burnt offering before the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
He placed the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.
When they entered the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
He erected the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the veil for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;
but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day when it was taken up.
For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.
Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,
“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When any man of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of animals from the herd or the flock.
If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer it, a male without defect; he shall offer it at the doorway of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD.
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.
He shall slay the young bull before the LORD; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall offer up the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
He shall then skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.
The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.
Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head and the suet over the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar.
Its entrails, however, and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer up in smoke all of it on the altar for a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
‘But if his offering is from the flock, of the sheep or of the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer it a male without defect.
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