1. Then Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
2. “On the first day of the first month, you will set up the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
3. You are to put the Ark of the Testimony there, and screen off the Ark with the curtain.
4. Then bring in the table, and set in order the bread that is on it. Bring in the menorah and light its lamps.
5. Set the golden incense altar in front of the Ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain over the entrance of the Tabernacle.
6. “Set the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
7. Set up the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
8. Set up the courtyard all around, and hang the curtain of the gate of the courtyard.
9. “Take the anointing oil and anoint the Tabernacle, and everything within it, and consecrate it, along with all of its furnishings, and it will be holy.
10. Also you are to anoint the altar of burnt offering with all of its utensils and consecrate the altar. The altar will be most holy.
11. Then you are to anoint the basin along with its base and sanctify it.
12. “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.
13. Put the holy garments on Aaron, anoint him and consecrate him, so that he may minister to Me as a kohen.
14. Also bring his sons and put tunics upon them.
15. You are to anoint them, as you did their father, so that they too may minister to Me as kohanim. Their anointing will be for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”
16. Moses did so, just as Adonai had commanded him.