Exodus 40:2
New International Version
“Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.

New Living Translation
“Set up the Tabernacle on the first day of the new year.

English Standard Version
“On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Berean Standard Bible
“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

King James Bible
On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

New King James Version
“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

New American Standard Bible
“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

NASB 1995
“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

NASB 1977
“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Legacy Standard Bible
“On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Amplified Bible
“On the first day of the first month (Abib) you shall set up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting [of God with you].

Christian Standard Bible
“You are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.

American Standard Version
On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“In the first day of the first month erect the Time Tabernacle.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
On the first day of the first month, at the new moon, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of witness,

Contemporary English Version
Set up my tent on the first day of the year

Douay-Rheims Bible
The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the testimony,

English Revised Version
On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Set up the tent (the tent of meeting) on the first day of the first month of the year.

Good News Translation
"On the first day of the first month set up the Tent of the LORD's presence.

International Standard Version
"On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tent of the Tent of Meeting.

JPS Tanakh 1917
On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Literal Standard Version
“On the first day of the month, in the first month, you raise up the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting,

Majority Standard Bible
“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

New American Bible
On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

NET Bible
"On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

New Revised Standard Version
On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

New Heart English Bible
"On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

Webster's Bible Translation
On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

World English Bible
“On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

Young's Literal Translation
'On the first day of the month, in the first month, thou dost raise up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,

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Context
Setting Up the Tabernacle
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.…

Cross References
Exodus 19:1
In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.

Exodus 40:1
Then the LORD said to Moses,

Exodus 40:17
So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

Numbers 1:1
On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:

Numbers 9:1
In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

Numbers 9:15
On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

1 Chronicles 17:5
For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling.


Treasury of Scripture

On the first day of the first month shall you set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

the first month

Exodus 40:17
And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

Exodus 12:1,2
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, …

Exodus 13:4
This day came ye out in the month Abib.

tabernacle

Exodus 40:6,18,19
And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation…

Exodus 26:1,7,30
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them…

Exodus 27:21
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

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Exodus 40
1. The tabernacle is commanded to be reared, anointed, and consecrated
13. Aaron and his sons to be sanctified
16. Moses performs all things accordingly
34. A cloud covers the tabernacle














(2) On the first day of the first month.--The Israelites had quitted Egypt on the fourteenth day of the first month, Abib (Exodus 12:6). They had reached the wilderness of Sinai in the course of the third month, Sivan, and encamped in front of Sinai shortly after (Exodus 19:1-2). The two long absences of Moses in the Mount had occupied nearly three months, and were separated by an interval probably of several days. It must have been the sixth or seventh month before the work was commenced, and very late in the year--the eleventh or twelfth month--before it was accomplished. Hence, the new year was now approaching, and, as it was approaching, its first day was naturally chosen as most fit for the inauguration of the new structure.

The tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.--Rather, the tabernacle, the tent of meeting. The words mishhan and 'ohel are in apposition, not in regimen. (So also in Exodus 40:6.)

Verse 2. - On the first day of the first month. The first of Abib, or Nisan, the "New Year's Day" of Israel, coinciding nearly with the opening of the vernal equinox, a very suitable day for the inauguration of a place of worship. The tabernacle was to be set up first of all; then the tent was to be placed over it. See vers. 18, 19.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“On the first
בְּאֶחָ֣ד (bə·’e·ḥāḏ)
Preposition-b | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

day
בְּיוֹם־ (bə·yō·wm-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of the first
הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן (hā·ri·šō·wn)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7223: First, in place, time, rank

month
הַחֹ֥דֶשׁ (ha·ḥō·ḏeš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month

you are to set up
תָּקִ֕ים (tā·qîm)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

the tabernacle,
מִשְׁכַּ֖ן (miš·kan)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle

the Tent
אֹ֥הֶל (’ō·hel)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 168: A tent

of Meeting.
מוֹעֵֽד׃ (mō·w·‘êḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4150: Appointed time, place, or meeting


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