Exodus 40:2

2 "On the first day of the month, you will set up the tabernacle of the tent of assembly.

Exodus 40:2 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 40:2

On the first day of the first month
Which was the month Nisan, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; which was the month the children of Israel came out of Egypt, out of which they had now been a whole year, excepting fourteen days:

shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation;
the tabernacle, which had a tent or covering over it, to which the people were gathered at times for religious service.

Exodus 40:2 In-Context

1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "On the first day of the month, you will set up the tabernacle of the tent of assembly.

3 And you will put there the ark of the testimony, and you will cover over the ark [with] the curtain.

4 And you will bring the table, and you will arrange its setting, and you will bring the lampstand, and you will set up its lamps.

5 And you will put the gold altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and you will set up the entrance screen for the tabernacle.