Exodus 40:2

2 "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting.

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 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting.

3 You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

4 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light the lamps of it.

5 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent.