Exodus 40:2

2 “On the ¹first day of the first month you shall ²erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

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, saying,

2 “On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

3 And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

4 And you shall bring in the table and arrange it, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

5 And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle.

Cross References

• 1. 40:2 [ch. 12:2; 13:4]
• 2. 40:2 ver. 17; ch. 26:30