17. On the first day of the first month of the second year the tabernacle was set up.
18. It was Moses who set up the tabernacle. He placed its pedestals, set up its frames, put in its bars, and set up its columns.
19. He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering on top of the tent, as the Lord had commanded him.
20. He took the covenant and put it in the ark; he placed poles alongside the ark and set the cover upon it.
21. He brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the curtain veil, thus screening off the ark of the covenant, as the Lord had commanded him.
22. He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil,
23. and arranged the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.
24. He placed the menorah in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle,
25. and he set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.
26. He placed the golden altar in the tent of meeting, in front of the veil,
27. and on it he burned fragrant incense, as the Lord had commanded him.