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Exodus 40:11-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

11. You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.

12. Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water

13. and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.

14. You shall bring his sons also and put coats on them,

15. and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”

16. This Moses did; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.

17. In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

18. Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars.

19. And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

20. He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark.