Exodus 40:9-33

⁹Use the anointing oil to anoint the Tabernacle and everything in it. Dedicate it and all its furniture to make it holy.

¹⁰Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils. Dedicate the altar and it will be especially holy.

¹¹Anoint and dedicate the basin with its stand.

¹²Take Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and wash them there with water.

¹³Then you are to put on Aaron the holy clothes, anoint him, and dedicate him, so that he may serve me as a priest.

¹⁴Have his sons come forward and dress them with tunics.

¹⁵Anoint them in the same way as you anointed their father, so that they can also serve me as priests. Their anointing makes their line priests forever, for generations to come.”

¹⁶Moses carried out all the Lord's instructions.

¹⁷The Tabernacle was put up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

¹⁸When Moses put up the Tabernacle, he placed its stands, attached its frames, connected its crossbars, and erected its posts.

¹⁹Then he spread the tent over the Tabernacle and placed the covering over the tent, as the Lord had ordered him to do.

²⁰Moses took the Testimony and put it in the Ark. He attached the poles to the Ark, and he placed the atonement cover on the top of the Ark.

²¹Then he carried the Ark into the Tabernacle. He put up the veil, and made sure the Ark of the Testimony was behind it, as the Lord had ordered him to do.

²²Moses placed the table inside the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the Tabernacle, outside the veil.

²³He laid out the bread on it in the presence of the Lord, as the Lord had ordered him to do.

²⁴He placed the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table on the south side of the Tabernacle

²⁵and put up the lamps in the presence of the Lord, as the Lord had ordered him to do.

²⁶Moses set up the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting, in front of the veil,

²⁷and he burned aromatic incense on it, as the Lord had ordered him to do.

²⁸Then he put up the screen at the entrance to the Tabernacle.

²⁹He set up the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, and presented the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the Lord had ordered him to do.

³⁰He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

³¹Moses, Aaron, and his sons used it to wash their hands and feet

³²They washed whenever they went into the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.

³³Moses set up the courtyard around the Tabernacle and the altar, and he put up the curtain for the courtyard entrance. This marked the end of the work done by Moses.