Shemot 40:2

2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the Mishkan Ohel Mo’ed.

Shemot 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.

Shemot 40:2 In-Context

1 0 And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,

2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the Mishkan Ohel Mo’ed.

3 And thou shalt place therein the Aron HaEdut, and thou shalt cover so as to screen the Aron with the Parochet.

4 And thou shalt bring in the Shulchan, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the Menorah, and kindle the Nerot thereof.

5 And thou shalt place the Mizbe’ach Hazahav L’Ketoret before the Aron HaEdut, and set up the Masach HaPetach LaMishkan.