Allah spoke to Musa, saying, 2“On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. 3You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. 4You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps. 5You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent. 6You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 7You shall set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein. 8You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court. 9You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tent, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy. 10You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy. 11You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it. 12You shall bring Harun and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water. 13You shall put on Harun the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office. 14You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. 15You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations. 16Thus did Musa: according to all that Allah commanded him, so he did.
17It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tent was raised up. 18Musa raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. 19He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tent above on it, as Allah commanded Musa. 20He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark. 21He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Allah commanded Musa. 22He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil. 23He set the bread in order on it before Allah, as Allahcommanded Musa. 24He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. 25He lit the lamps before Allah, as Allah commanded Musa. 26He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil; 27and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Allah commanded Musa. 28He put up the screen of the door to the tent. 29He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal-offering, as Allah commanded Musa. 30He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash. 31Musa, Harun, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. 32When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Allah commanded Musa. 33He raised up the court around the tent and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Musa finished the work.
34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Allah filled the tabernacle. 35Musa was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Allah’s glory filled the tabernacle. 36When the cloud was taken up from over the tent, Bani-Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys; 37but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not travel until the day that it was taken up. 38For the cloud of Allah was on the tent by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.