Exodus 40:2

2 mense primo die prima mensis eriges tabernaculum testimonii

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 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen dicens

2 mense primo die prima mensis eriges tabernaculum testimonii

3 et pones in eo arcam dimittesque ante illam velum

4 et inlata mensa pones super eam quae rite praecepta sunt candelabrum stabit cum lucernis suis

5 et altare aureum in quo adoletur incensum coram arca testimonii tentorium in introitu tabernaculi pones