1. Then the Lord said to Moses:
2. “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.
3. Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.
4. Bring in the table and set out what belongs on it. Then bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.
5. Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
6. “Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;
7. place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it.
8. Set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.
9. “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.