“On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.
Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected. Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars. And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,
And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be a single whole.
the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;
You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you. It shall be most holy for you.
In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.
“You shall also make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make.
“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
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