1. The Lord spoke to Moses:
2. Set up the meeting tent dwelling on the first day of the first month.
3. Place the chest containing the covenant inside the dwelling. Hide the chest from view with the veil.
4. Bring in the table and arrange its items. Bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.
5. Place the gold altar for burning incense in front of the chest containing the covenant. Set up the screen at the dwelling’s entrance.
6. Put the altar for entirely burned offerings in front of the entrance to the meeting tent dwelling.
7. Put the washbasin between the meeting tent and the altar and put water in it.
8. Set up the courtyard all around. Hang up the screen at the courtyard gate.
9. Then take the anointing oil and anoint the dwelling and everything in it. Make holy the dwelling and all its equipment, and it will be holy.
10. Anoint the altar for entirely burned offerings and all its equipment. Make the altar holy, and the altar will be most holy.
11. Anoint the washbasin with its stand and make it holy.
12. Then bring Aaron and his sons to the meeting tent’s entrance and wash them with water.
13. Dress Aaron in the holy clothes. Anoint him and make him holy so that he may serve me as priest.
14. Then bring his sons and dress them in tunics.
15. Anoint them like you anointed their father so that they may serve me as priests. Their anointing is to the priesthood for all time in every generation.