7. Put the washbasin between the meeting tent and the altar and put water in it.
8. Set up the courtyard all around. Hang up the screen at the courtyard gate.
9. Then take the anointing oil and anoint the dwelling and everything in it. Make holy the dwelling and all its equipment, and it will be holy.
10. Anoint the altar for entirely burned offerings and all its equipment. Make the altar holy, and the altar will be most holy.
11. Anoint the washbasin with its stand and make it holy.
12. Then bring Aaron and his sons to the meeting tent’s entrance and wash them with water.
13. Dress Aaron in the holy clothes. Anoint him and make him holy so that he may serve me as priest.
14. Then bring his sons and dress them in tunics.
15. Anoint them like you anointed their father so that they may serve me as priests. Their anointing is to the priesthood for all time in every generation.
16. Moses did everything exactly as the Lord had commanded him.
17. In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the dwelling was set up.
18. Moses set up the dwelling. He laid out its bases. He set up its boards, inserted its bars, and raised up its posts.
19. He spread the tent out over the dwelling, and he put the covering of the tent over it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
20. He took the covenant document and placed it inside the chest. He put the poles on the chest, and he set the cover on top of the chest.
21. He brought the chest into the dwelling. He set up the veil as a screen to hide from view the chest containing the covenant, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
22. He placed the table in the meeting tent, on the north side of the dwelling, outside the veil.
23. He set the bread in its proper place on the table in the Lord’s presence, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
24. He put the lampstand in the meeting tent, opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling.
25. He set up the lamps in the Lord’s presence, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
26. He put the gold altar in the meeting tent in front of the veil.