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Moses erected the Tabernacle by setting down its bases, inserting the frames, attaching the crossbars, and setting up the posts.
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Then he spread the coverings over the Tabernacle framework and put on the protective layers, just as the LORD had commanded him.
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He took the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant and placed them inside the Ark. Then he attached the carrying poles to the Ark, and he set the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—on top of it.
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Then he brought the Ark of the Covenant into the Tabernacle and hung the inner curtain to shield it from view, just as the LORD had commanded him.
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Next Moses placed the table in the Tabernacle, along the north side of the Holy Place, just outside the inner curtain.
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And he arranged the Bread of the Presence on the table before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
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He set the lampstand in the Tabernacle across from the table on the south side of the Holy Place.
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Then he lit the lamps in the LORD ’s presence, just as the LORD had commanded him.
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He also placed the gold incense altar in the Tabernacle, in the Holy Place in front of the inner curtain.
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On it he burned the fragrant incense, just as the LORD had commanded him.
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He hung the curtain at the entrance of the Tabernacle,
This chapter contains the order for setting up the tabernacle, and placing the furniture of it where it was the will of God it should be put, Ex 40:1-8 and for the anointing it, and all its vessels, and also Aaron and his sons, Ex 40:9-16 all which were accordingly done, the tabernacle was reared up, and everything was put in its proper place, Ex 40:16-33 upon which a cloud covered the tent, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle, so that Moses could not enter; which cloud afterwards was a direction in their journeys, by night and by day, Ex 40:34-38.