¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying:

²On the first day of the first month you shall set up the dwelling of the tent of meeting.

³You shall put the chest of the testimony there, and you shall screen over the chest with the curtain.

⁴You shall bring in the table and arrange it in its order; and you shall bring in the lampstand and raise up its lamps.

⁵You shall set the altar of gold for incense in front of the chest of the testimony, and put the screen of the doorway at the dwelling.

⁶You shall set the altar of the burnt offering in front of the doorway of the dwelling of the tent of meeting.

⁷You shall set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water there.

⁸You shall put up the court all around, and set the screen of the gate of the court.

⁹You will take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it; you will set it apart, and all its articles, and it will be holiness.

¹⁰You shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all its articles; you shall set apart the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

¹¹You shall anoint the basin and its stand, and set apart it.

¹²You shall bring near Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water.

¹³You clothed Aaron with the garment of the holiness, and anointed him, and set him apart, and he served to me.

¹⁴And his sons you are to bring near, and clothe them in tunics.

¹⁵and anoint them as you anointed their father, and they served to me; their anointed was to be to them to the priesthood of the forever, to their generation.

¹⁶Moses did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him; so he did.

¹⁷In the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.

¹⁸Moses set up the tabernacle: he placed its bases, set its boards, put in its bars, and raised its pillars.

¹⁹He spread out the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, from above, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁰He took the testimony and put it into the ark, set the poles on the ark, and placed the atonement cover on the ark, from above.

²¹He brought the ark into the tabernacle, set up the curtain of the screen, and covered over the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²²He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tabernacle, to the north, outside the curtain.

²³He laid out on it a row of bread before the face of Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁴He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle, to the south.

²⁵He lit the lamps before the face of Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁶He put the gold altar in the tent of meeting, in front of the curtain.

²⁷He made the incense of spices rise in smoke on it, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁸He set up the screen of the entrance of the tabernacle.

²⁹He put the altar of the burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered up on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³⁰He put the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water there for washing.

³¹Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet from it;

³²When they came into the tent of meeting, and when they drew near to the altar, they would wash, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³³He raised the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and put up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

³⁴The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the weightiness of Yahweh filled the tabernacle.

³⁵Moses was not able to go into the tent of meeting, for the cloud had settled down over it, and the weightiness of Yahweh had filled the tabernacle.

³⁶And when the cloud was lifted up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel would set out, at all their stages.

³⁷But if the cloud was not lifted up, they would not set out until the day it was lifted up.

³⁸For the cloud of Yahweh was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel, at all their stages.