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1 The LORD spoke to Moses:
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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Set up the meeting tent dwelling on the first day of the first month.
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“On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
3 Place the chest containing the covenant inside the dwelling. Hide the chest from view with the veil.
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And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
4 Bring in the table and arrange its items. Bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.
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And you shall bring in the table and arrange it, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.
5 Place the gold altar for burning incense in front of the chest containing the covenant. Set up the screen at the dwelling's entrance.
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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.
6 Put the altar for entirely burned offerings in front of the entrance to the meeting tent dwelling.
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You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,
7 Put the washbasin between the meeting tent and the altar and put water in it.
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and place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
8 Set up the courtyard all around. Hang up the screen at the courtyard gate.
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And you shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.
9 Then take the anointing oil and anoint the dwelling and everything in it. Make holy the dwelling and all its equipment, and it will be holy.
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“Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
10 Anoint the altar for entirely burned offerings and all its equipment. Make the altar holy, and the altar will be most holy.
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You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
11 Anoint the washbasin with its stand and make it holy.
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You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.
12 Then bring Aaron and his sons to the meeting tent's entrance and wash them with water.
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Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water
13 Dress Aaron in the holy clothes. Anoint him and make him holy so that he may serve me as priest.
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and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.
14 Then bring his sons and dress them in tunics.
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You shall bring his sons also and put coats on them,
15 Anoint them like you anointed their father so that they may serve me as priests. Their anointing is to the priesthood for all time in every generation.
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and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations. ”
16 Moses did everything exactly as the LORD had commanded him.
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This Moses did; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.
17 In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the dwelling was set up.
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In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.
18 Moses set up the dwelling. He laid out its bases. He set up its boards, inserted its bars, and raised up its posts.
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Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars.
19 He spread the tent out over the dwelling, and he put the covering of the tent over it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
20 He took the covenant document and placed it inside the chest. He put the poles on the chest, and he set the cover on top of the chest.
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He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark.
21 He brought the chest into the dwelling. He set up the veil as a screen to hide from view the chest containing the covenant, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
22 He placed the table in the meeting tent, on the north side of the dwelling, outside the veil.
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He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil,
23 He set the bread in its proper place on the table in the LORD's presence, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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and arranged the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
24 He put the lampstand in the meeting tent, opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling.
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He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle,
25 He set up the lamps in the LORD's presence, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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and set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
26 He put the gold altar in the meeting tent in front of the veil.
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He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil,
27 He burned sweet-smelling incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
28 He also set up the screen at the entrance to the dwelling.
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He put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle.
29 He placed the altar for entirely burned offerings at the entrance to the meeting tent dwelling. He offered the entirely burned offering and the grain offering on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
30 He put the washbasin between the meeting tent and the altar, and put water in it for washing.
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He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing,
31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons used it to wash their hands and their feet.
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with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.
32 Whenever they went into the meeting tent and whenever they approached the altar, they washed themselves, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, as the Lord commanded Moses.
33 He set up the courtyard around the dwelling and the altar, and he hung up the screen at the courtyard's gate. When Moses had finished all the work,
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And he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
34 the cloud covered the meeting tent and the LORD's glorious presence filled the dwelling.
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Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
35 Moses couldn't enter the meeting tent because the cloud had settled on it, and the LORD's glorious presence filled the dwelling.
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And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
36 Whenever the cloud rose from the dwelling, the Israelites would set out on their journeys.
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Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out.
37 But if the cloud didn't rise, then they didn't set out until the day it rose.
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But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up.
38 The LORD's cloud stayed over the dwelling during the day, with lightning in it at night, clearly visible to the whole household of Israel at every stage of their journey.
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For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.
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