17. And on the first day of the first month in the second year the tabernacle was erected.
18. Moses set up the tabernacle, laid its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and erected its pillars.
19. [Moses] spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded him.
20. He took the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] and put it into the ark, and set the poles [in the rings] on the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.
21. [Moses] brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen and screened the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded him.
22. Moses put the table [of showbread] in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the veil;
23. He set the bread [of the Presence] in order on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him. [John 6:32-35.]
24. And he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle.
25. Moses set up and lighted the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.
26. He put the golden altar [of incense] in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;
27. He burned sweet incense [symbol of prayer] upon it, as the Lord commanded him. [Ps. 141:2; Rev. 8:3.]
28. And he set up the hanging or screen at the door of the tabernacle.
29. [Moses] put 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 cereal offering, as the Lord commanded him.
30. And Moses set the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.