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God grant me the
Serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
and Wisdom to know the difference.
Thy will, not mine, be done.
November 22, 2008
NKJ
Exodus 40
The Tabernacle Erected and Arranged
1 Then the LORD spoke
to Moses, saying: 2 “On the
first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the
tent of meeting. 3 You
shall put in it the ark of the Testimony, and partition off the ark
with the veil. 4
You shall bring in the table and arrange the things that are to be set
in order on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and light its
lamps. 5 You shall also set
the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Testimony, and
put up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. 6 Then you shall set the altar of
the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of
meeting. 7 And you shall
set the laver between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put
water in it. 8 You shall
set up the court all around, and hang up the screen at the court gate.
9 “And you shall take the
anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it;
and you shall hallow it and all its utensils, and it shall be holy. 10 You shall anoint the altar of
the burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar. The
altar shall be most holy. 11
And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and consecrate it.
12 “Then you shall bring
Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of meeting and wash
them with water. 13 You
shall put the holy garments on Aaron, and anoint him and consecrate
him, that he may minister to Me as priest. 14 And you shall bring his sons and clothe them
with tunics. 15
You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may
minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall surely be an
everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”
16 Thus Moses did; according
to all that the LORD had commanded him, so he did.
17 And it came to pass in
the first month of the second year, on the first day of the
month, that the tabernacle was raised up. 18 So Moses raised up the
tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars,
and raised up its pillars. 19
And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of
the tent on top of it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 20 He took the Testimony and put it
into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put
the mercy seat on top of the ark. 21
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung up the veil of the
covering, and partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the LORD had
commanded Moses.
22 He put the table in the
tabernacle of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the
veil; 23 and he set the
bread in order upon it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded
Moses. 24 He put the
lampstand in the tabernacle of meeting, across from the table, on the
south side of the tabernacle; 25
and he lit the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 26 He put the gold altar in the
tabernacle of meeting in front of the veil; 27 and he burned sweet incense on it, as the LORD
had commanded Moses. 28 He
hung up the screen at the door of the tabernacle. 29 And he put the altar of burnt
offering before
the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it
the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the LORD had commanded
Moses. 30 He set the laver
between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and put water there
for washing; 31 and Moses,
Aaron, and his sons would wash their hands and their feet with water
from it. 32
Whenever they went into the tabernacle of meeting, and when they came
near the altar, they washed, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 33
And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and
hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
The Cloud and the Glory
34 Then the cloud covered
the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the
tabernacle. 35
And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the
cloud rested above it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
36 Whenever the cloud was
taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go
onward in all their journeys. 37
But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till the
day that it was taken up. 38
For the cloud of the LORD was
above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the
sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.