“On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
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“On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
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On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
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'On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
Cross-references (13)
Passages linked to Exodus 40:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 26:30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
- Exodus 13:4 Today you go out in the month Abib.
- Exodus 12:1-2 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Exodus 40:17-19 In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up. Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 1:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 7:1 On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;
- Exodus 26:1 “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman.
- Exodus 26:7 “You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.
- Exodus 27:21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 30:36 You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
- Exodus 35:11 the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
- Exodus 36:18 He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
- Exodus 40:6 “You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain After that Moses had been 40 days, and 40…
After that Moses had been 40 days, and 40 nights in the mount, that is, from the beginning of August to the tenth of September, he came down, and caused this work to be done: which being finished, was set up in Abib, which month containeth half March and half April.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To wit, of the second year after their coming…
To wit, of the second year after their coming out of Egypt, as is evident.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On the first day of the first month,.... Which…
On the first day of the first month,.... Which was the month Nisan, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; which was the month the children of Israel came out of Egypt, out of which they had now been a whole year, excepting fourteen days:
shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation; the tabernacle, which had a tent or covering over it, to which the people were gathered at times for religious service.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The time for doing this is, On the first…
The time for doing this is, On the first day of the first month - This wanted but fourteen days of a year since they came out of Egypt. Probably the work was made ready just at the end of the year, so that the appointing this day gave no delay. In Hezekiah's time they began to sanctify the temple on the first day of the first month, 2 Chron. xxix, 17. The new moon (which by their computation was the first day of every month) was observed by them with some solemnity; and therefore this first new moon of the year was thus made remarkable.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 2. The first day of the first month]…
Verse 2. The 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 building, with such a profusion of curious and costly workmanship, was never got up in so short a time. But it was the work of the Lord, and the people did service as unto the Lord; for the people had a mind to work.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 40:2. Thou shalt set up the tabernacle —…
Exo 40:2. Thou shalt set up the tabernacle — The time for doing this was, On the first day of the first month — This wanted but fourteen days of a year since they came out of Egypt. Probably the work was made ready just at the end of the year, so that the appointing this day gave no delay. In Hezekiah’s time they began to sanctify the temple on the first day of the first month, 2Ch 29:17. The new moon (which, by their computation, was the first day of every month) was observed by them with some solemnity; and therefore this first new moon of the year was thus made remarkable.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain See Exo 40:17.
See Exo 40:17.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Month of the second year, ver. 15. The first…
Month of the second year, ver. 15. The first day of every month was kept with some degree of solemnity, though it was not a day of rest. (Numbers xxxiii. 11.; 1 Kings xx. 5.; &c.) (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. the first day of the first month] viz.…
2. the first day of the first month] viz. (v. 17) of the second year of the Exodus, nine months since the arrival at Sinai (Exo_19:1).
the Dwelling of the tent of meeting] as Exo_39:32.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2) On the first day of the first month.—The…
(2) On the first day of the first month.—The Israelites had quitted Egypt on the fourteenth day of the first month, Abib (Exo_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 (Exo_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 Exo_40:6.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On the first day of the first month. The…
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.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain first month
first month
i.e. April.
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