The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. Exo 26:30Exo 13:4Exo 12:1-2Exo 40:17-19Num 1:1Num 7:1Exo 26:1Exo 26:7 You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. Exo 35:12Num 4:5Rev 11:19Exo 25:22Exo 40:20-21Lev 16:14Exo 25:10Exo 26:31 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps. Lev 24:8Exo 25:23-39Exo 26:35-36Exo 37:10-24Exo 40:22-25Lev 24:5-6 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle. Heb 10:19-221Jn 2:1-2Heb 9:24Jhn 14:6Exo 26:36-37Exo 30:1-5Exo 35:25-28Exo 37:25-28
“You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. Exo 40:291Jn 2:21Jn 4:9-10Eph 1:6-7Exo 27:1-8Exo 38:1-7Heb 13:10 You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein. 1Jn 1:7Heb 10:22Psa 26:6Tit 3:5Zec 13:1Exo 30:18-21Exo 38:8Exo 40:30-32 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court. 1Co 12:28Eph 4:11-12Exo 27:9-19Exo 38:9-20Exo 40:33Mat 16:18
“You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture, and it will be holy. Lev 8:10Num 7:11Jn 2:202Co 1:222Co 1:4Exo 30:23-33Exo 37:29Exo 39:39 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most holy. Exo 29:36-37Isa 61:1Luk 1:351Co 1:302Co 5:21Heb 7:26Isa 11:2Jhn 17:19 You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
“You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water. Lev 8:1-13Exo 29:1-35Lev 9:1-24Gal 4:4Isa 11:1-5Isa 61:1-3Jhn 3:34Luk 1:35 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office. Exo 28:411Jn 2:201Jn 2:27Heb 10:10Heb 10:29Isa 61:1Jhn 17:19Jhn 3:34 You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them. 1Co 1:301Co 1:9Isa 44:3-5Isa 61:10Jhn 1:16Rom 13:14Rom 8:30 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.” Num 25:13Heb 5:1-14Heb 7:17-24Heb 8:1-10Psa 110:4Exo 12:14Exo 29:9Exo 30:31 Moses did so. According to all that the LORD commanded him, so he did. 1Co 4:2Deu 4:1Exo 40:17-32Deu 12:32Exo 23:21-22Exo 39:42-43Isa 8:20Mat 28:20
In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up. Num 7:1Exo 40:1-2Num 9:1 Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. 1Pe 1:51Ti 3:15Exo 26:15-30Exo 36:20-34Exo 40:2Ezk 37:27-28Gal 4:4Isa 33:24 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as the LORD commanded Moses. Exo 26:1-14Exo 36:8-19 He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark. Exo 16:341Jn 2:21Ki 8:9Deu 10:5Exo 25:16-21Exo 31:18Exo 37:6-9Exo 40:3 He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the covenant, as the LORD commanded Moses. Exo 26:33Exo 40:3Exo 35:12Heb 10:19-20 He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the veil. Exo 26:35Eph 3:8Jhn 6:53-57Exo 40:24 He set the bread in order on it before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. Exo 25:30Exo 40:4Heb 9:2Mat 12:4 He put the lamp stand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle. Exo 25:31-35Exo 26:35Exo 37:17-24Jhn 1:1Jhn 1:5Jhn 1:9Jhn 8:12Psa 119:105 He lit the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. Exo 25:37Exo 40:4Rev 4:5 He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil; Exo 40:51Jn 2:1Exo 30:1-10Heb 10:1Heb 7:25Jhn 11:42Jhn 17:1-26Mat 23:19 and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as the LORD commanded Moses. Exo 30:7 He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle. Exo 40:5Eph 2:18Exo 26:36-37Exo 38:9-19Heb 10:19-20Jhn 10:9Jhn 14:6 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as the LORD commanded Moses. Exo 40:6Exo 27:1-8Exo 29:38-46Exo 38:1-7Heb 13:10Heb 13:5-6Heb 9:12Rom 3:24-26 He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash. Exo 40:7Exo 30:18-21Exo 38:8Ezk 36:25Heb 10:22 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. 1Jn 1:71Jn 1:9Exo 30:19-20Jhn 13:10Psa 26:6Psa 51:6-7 When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as the LORD commanded Moses. Exo 30:19-20Exo 40:19Psa 73:19 He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. Exo 40:8Exo 27:9-161Co 12:121Co 12:281Ki 6:92Ti 4:7Eph 2:18Eph 4:11-13
Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the LORD’s glory filled the tabernacle. Rev 15:8Num 9:15-232Ch 7:2Exo 14:19-20Exo 14:24Exo 29:43Rev 21:23-24Exo 13:21-22 Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and the LORD’s glory filled the tabernacle. 1Ki 8:112Ch 7:2Lev 16:2Isa 6:42Ch 5:13-14Rev 15:8 When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys; Neh 9:19Num 9:17Exo 13:21-22Num 10:11-131Co 10:1Num 10:33-36Num 19:17-22Psa 105:39 but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel until the day that it was taken up. Num 9:19-22Psa 31:15 For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. Psa 78:14Exo 13:21Num 9:15Isa 4:5-6Psa 105:39