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and anoint them as you anointed their father, so that they can serve me in the office of cohen. Their anointing will signify that the office of cohen is theirs through all their generations."
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Moshe did this - he acted in accordance with everything ADONAI had ordered him to do.
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On the first day of the first month of the second year, the tabernacle was set up.
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Moshe erected the tabernacle, put its sockets in place, put up its planks, put in its crossbars and set up its posts.
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He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above it, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.
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He took and put the testimony inside the ark, put the poles on the ark, and set the ark-cover above, on the ark.
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Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, set up the curtain as a screen and concealed the ark for the testimony, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.
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He put the table in the tent of meeting on the side of the tabernacle facing north, outside the curtain.
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He arranged a row of bread on it before ADONAI, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.
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He put the menorah in the tent of meeting across from the table, on the side of the tabernacle facing south.
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Then he lit the lamps before ADONAI, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.