Exodus 40:7-17

7 Put the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
8 Set up the surrounding courtyard, and put up the screen at the entrance to the courtyard.
9 Take the anointing oil, and anoint the tent and everything in it. In this way you will dedicate it and all its furnishings. Then it will be holy.
10 Anoint the altar for burnt offerings and all the utensils. In this way you will dedicate the altar, and it will be most holy.
11 Anoint the basin and stand, and they will be dedicated.
12 "Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and wash them.
13 Then dress Aaron in the holy clothes, and anoint him. In this way you will dedicate him to serve me as priest.
14 Have his sons come forward, and dress them in their linen robes.
15 Anoint them to serve me as priests, as you anointed their father. Their anointing will begin a permanent priesthood for them for generations to come."
16 Moses did everything as the LORD commanded him.
17 So the tent was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year [after the Israelites had left Egypt].

Exodus 40:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

\\INTRODUCTION OF EXODUS 40\\

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.

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