Exodus 40:2

2 "You are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.^[a]

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 The Lord spoke to Moses:

2 "You are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.

3 Put the ark of the testimony there, and screen off the ark with the veil.

4 Then bring in the table and lay out its arrangement; also bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

5 Place the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony. Put up the screen for the entrance to the tabernacle.

Footnotes

• [a] Lit on the day of the first month, on the first of the month