Exodus 40:17

17 Und es geschah im ersten Monat, im zweiten Jahre, am Ersten des Monats, da wurde die Wohnung aufgerichtet.

Exodus 40:17 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 40:17

And it came to pass in the first month, in the second
year
Of the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt;

on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up;
so that this was in the spring of the year, about the vernal equinox, on a new year's day, that this was done, which was beginning the year well: it was within a fortnight of a year after their coming out of Egypt, and when they had been about five months and a half in building the tabernacle; for such a time it seems they were in doing that, and which, considering the many things to be done, and in the winter season, it shows great dispatch. Where was the place, in which the tabernacle was reared up, is not said: it is F4 observed, that near the southwest corner of that part of Mount Sinai, which is called Mount Episteme, there is a little hill called Araone by the Arabs, and by the Greeks the tabernacle of the testimony, where they say Aaron was consecrated, and first performed the offices of the priesthood: probably, says a learned man F5, on this hill was placed the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses was ordered to place without the camp afar off; but he seems to mistake the tent of Moses, or however the little tabernacle erected before the grand one was made, for this tabernacle in ( Exodus 33:7 ) which he seems to refer to; it is more probable that it was now reared up in the midst of the camp of Israel, see ( Numbers 2:2 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F4 Pocock's Travels, p. 147.
F5 Clayton's Chronology of the Hebrew Bible, p. 350.

Exodus 40:17 In-Context

15 Und du sollst sie salben, so wie du ihren Vater gesalbt hast, daß sie mir den Priesterdienst ausüben. Und ihre Salbung soll geschehen, um ihnen zu einem ewigen Priestertum zu sein bei ihren Geschlechtern.
16 Und Mose tat es; nach allem, was Jehova ihm geboten hatte, also tat er.
17 Und es geschah im ersten Monat, im zweiten Jahre, am Ersten des Monats, da wurde die Wohnung aufgerichtet.
18 Und Mose richtete die Wohnung auf und setzte ihre Füße und stellte ihre Bretter auf und setzte ihre Riegel ein und richtete ihre Säulen auf;
19 und er breitete das Zelt über die Wohnung und legte die Decke des Zeltes oben darüber: so wie Jehova dem Mose geboten hatte.
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