Exodus 40:1-11

Setting Up the Tabernacle

1 Then the LORD said to Moses:
2 “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.
3 Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.
4 Bring in the table and set out what belongs on it. Then bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.
5 Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
6 “Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;
7 place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it.
8 Set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.
9 “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.
10 Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it will be most holy.
11 Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.

Exodus 40:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

\\INTRODUCTION OF EXODUS 40\\

This chapter contains the order for setting up the tabernacle, and
placing the furniture of it where it was the will of God it should be
put, Ex 40:1-8 and for the anointing it, and all its vessels, and
also Aaron and his sons, Ex 40:9-16 all which were accordingly
done, the tabernacle was reared up, and everything was put in its
proper place, Ex 40:16-33 upon which a cloud covered the tent, and
the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle, so that Moses could not
enter; which cloud afterwards was a direction in their journeys, by
night and by day, Ex 40:34-38.

Cross References 14

  • 1. S Exodus 26:30
  • 2. ver 34,35; Leviticus 1:1; Leviticus 3:2; Leviticus 6:26; Leviticus 9:23; Leviticus 16:16; Numbers 1:1; Numbers 7:89; Numbers 11:16; Numbers 17:4; Numbers 20:6; Joshua 18:1; Joshua 19:51; Jeremiah 7:12
  • 3. ver 17; S Exodus 12:2; Numbers 9:1
  • 4. ver 21; Numbers 4:5; S Exodus 26:33
  • 5. S Exodus 25:23
  • 6. S Exodus 25:30
  • 7. S Exodus 25:31; ver 22-25; Exodus 26:35
  • 8. ver 26; S Exodus 30:1
  • 9. S Exodus 27:1; 2 Kings 16:14; 2 Chronicles 4:1
  • 10. ver 30; Exodus 30:18
  • 11. S Exodus 27:9
  • 12. S Exodus 30:26; Leviticus 8:10
  • 13. Numbers 7:1
  • 14. S Exodus 29:36
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