Exodus 40:2-17

2“Set up the tent (the tent of meeting) on the first day of the first month of the year.

3Place the ark containing the words of my promise inside it, and hang the canopy over the ark.

4Bring in the table, and arrange everything on it. Bring in the lamp stand, and set up the lamps.

5Put the gold altar for incense in front of the ark. Put up the screen at the entrance to the tent.

6“Put the altar for burnt offerings in front of the entrance to the tent of meeting.

7Put the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

8Set up the surrounding courtyard, and put up the screen at the entrance to the courtyard.

9Take the anointing oil, and anoint the tent and everything in it. In this way you will dedicate it and all its furnishings. Then it will be holy.

10Anoint the altar for burnt offerings and all the utensils. In this way you will dedicate the altar, and it will be most holy.

11Anoint the basin and stand, and they will be dedicated.

12“Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and wash them.

13Then dress Aaron in the holy clothes, and anoint him. In this way you will dedicate him to serve me as priest.

14Have his sons come forward, and dress them in their linen robes.

15Anoint them to serve me as priests, as you anointed their father. Their anointing will begin a permanent priesthood for them for generations to come.”

16Moses did everything as the Lord commanded him.

17So the tent was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year ⌞after the Israelites had left Egypt⌟.