Exodus 40:2

2 "Set up the tent (the tent of meeting) on the first day of the first month of the year.

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 Then the LORD said to Moses,

2 "Set up the tent (the tent of meeting) on the first day of the first month of the year.

3 Place the ark containing the words of my promise inside it, and hang the canopy over the ark.

4 Bring in the table, and arrange everything on it. Bring in the lamp stand, and set up the lamps.

5 Put the gold altar for incense in front of the ark. Put up the screen at the entrance to the tent.