8. Set up the wall of curtains around the courtyard. Then put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.
9. “Use the anointing oil and anoint the Holy Tent and everything in it. When you put the oil on these things, you will make them holy.
10. Anoint the altar for burning offerings. Anoint everything on the altar. You will make the altar holy. It will be very holy.
11. Then anoint the bowl and the base under it to make these things holy.
12. “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Meeting Tent. Wash them with water.
13. Then put the special clothes on Aaron. Anoint him with the oil and make him holy. Then he can serve me as a priest.
14. Then put the clothes on his sons.
15. Anoint the sons in the same way you anointed their father. Then they can also serve me as priests. When you anoint them, they will become priests. That family will continue to be priests for all time to come.”
16. Moses obeyed the Lord. He did everything that the Lord commanded him.
17. So the Holy Tent was set up at the right time. It was the first day of the first month during the second year from the time they left Egypt.
18. Moses set up the Holy Tent just as the Lord had said. He put the bases down first. Then he put the frames on the bases. Then he put the braces on and set up the posts.
19. After that Moses put the outer tent over the Holy Tent. Then he put the covering over the outer tent. He did these things just as the Lord had commanded.
20. Moses took the Agreement and put it in the Holy Box. He put the poles on the Box and put the mercy-cover on it.
21. Then Moses put the Holy Box into the Holy Tent. He hung the curtain in the right place to protect it. In this way he protected the Box of the Agreement behind the curtain just as the Lord had commanded him.
22. Then Moses put the table in the Meeting Tent on the north side of the Holy Tent. He put it in the Holy Place, in front of the curtain.
23. Then he put the bread on the table before the Lord. He did this just as the Lord had commanded him.
24. Then Moses put the lampstand in the Meeting Tent on the south side of the Tent, across from the table.