Exodus 40:1

Setting Up the Tabernacle

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, ¹

Exodus 40:1 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 40:1

And the Lord spake unto Moses
When the tabernacle, and the work of it, were finished, and he had taken a survey of it, and everything belonging to it, which appeared to be done as was ordered:

saying;
as follows.

Exodus 40:1 In-Context

1 Then the LORD said to Moses,

2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

3 Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

4 Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps.

5 Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

Cross References

• 1. (Acts 7:44–47; Hebrews 9:1–10)