Exodus 40:1

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Then the LORD said to Moses,²"On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting. ³Put the Ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil. ⁴Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps. ⁵Place the gold altar of incense in front of the Ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle. ⁶Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting. ⁷And place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it. ⁸Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance of the courtyard. ⁹Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all its furnishings, and it shall be holy. ¹⁰Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.

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Reciprocal: Exodus 36:1 - according Exodus 40:17 - the first month 1 Chronicles 21:29 - the tabernacle

Cross-References

Genesis 40:13
Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

Genesis 40:20
On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

Genesis 40:23
The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.

Esther 6:1
That night, sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the book of records, the chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... When the tabernacle, and the work of it, were finished, and he had taken a survey of it, and everything belonging to it, which appeared to be done as was ordered:

saying; as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XL

Moses is commanded to set up the tabernacle, the first day of

the first month of the second year of their departure from

Egypt, 1, 2.

The ark to be put into it, 3.

The table and candlestick to be brought in also with the golden

altar, 4.5.

The altar of burnt-offering to be set up before the door, and

the laver between the tent and the altar, 6, 7.

The court to be set up, 8.

The tabernacle and its utensils to be anointed, 9-11.

Aaron and his sons to be washed, clothed, and anointed, 12-15.

All these things are done accordingly, 16.

The tabernacle is erected; and all its utensils, c., placed in

it on the first of the first month of the second year, 17-33.

The cloud covers the tent, and the glory of the Lord fills the

tabernacle, so that even Moses is not able to enter, 34, 35.

When they were to journey, the cloud was taken up when to

encamp, the cloud rested on the tabernacle, 36, 37.

A cloud by day and a fire by night was upon the tabernacle, in

the sight of all the Israelites, through the whole course of

the journeyings, 38.

NOTES ON CHAP. XL