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Exodus 40:2
2On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
Exodus 40:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
- New International Version (NIV)“Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
Context of Exodus 40:2
1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 3And thou shalt put in it the ark of the testimony, and shalt cover the ark with the veil. 4And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it. And thou shalt bring in the candlestick and light its lamps.
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בְּיוֹם־הַחֹ֥דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן בְּאֶחָ֣ד לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ תָּקִ֕ים אֶת־מִשְׁכַּ֖ן אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Exodus 40:2
- Exodus 40:17And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first of the month, that the tabernacle was set up.
- Exodus 12:1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
- Exodus 13:4Ye come out to-day, in the month Abib.
- Numbers 7:1And it came to pass on the day that Moses had completed the setting up of the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and hallowed it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all its utensils, and had anointed them, and hallowed them,
- Exodus 40:6And thou shalt set the altar of burnt-offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 26:1And thou shalt make the tabernacle [with] ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 27:21In the tent of meeting outside the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall dress them from evening to morning before Jehovah: [it is] an everlasting statute, for their generations, on the part of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 30:36And thou shalt beat [some] of it to powder, and put [some] of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
- Exodus 35:11the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;
- Exodus 36:18And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one.
Commentaries on Exodus 40:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2The first day of the first month - It Is generally supposed that the Israelites began the work of the tabernacle about the sixth month after they had left Egypt; and as the work was finished about the end of the first year of their exodus, (for it was set up the first day of the second year), that therefore they had spent about six months in making it: so that the tabernacle was erected one year all but fifteen days after they had left Egypt. Such a…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2See Exodus 40:17.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2In the Tent of Meeting, God met with Israel to communicate his will to them. On the first day of the new year, they set up the Tent of Meeting. This was one year after God announced the Passover and the beginning of Israel's calendar.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-382. On the first day of the first month--From a careful consideration of the incidents recorded to have happened after the exodus (Ex 12:2; 13:4; 19:1; 20:18; 34:28, &c.), it has been computed that the work of the tabernacle was commenced within six months after that emigration; and consequently, that other six months had been occupied in building it. So long a period spent in preparing the materials of a movable pavilion, it would be difficult to…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 40
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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