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Exodus 40:5-22 World Messianic Bible (WMB)

5. You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

6. “You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

7. You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.

8. You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

9. “You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture, and it will be holy.

10. You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most holy.

11. You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.

12. “You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

13. You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

14. You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them.

15. You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”

16. Moses did so. According to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.

17. In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.

18. Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.

19. He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as the Lord commanded Moses.

20. He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.

21. He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the covenant, as the Lord commanded Moses.

22. He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the veil.

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