1. Then the Lord said to Moses:
2. On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
3. Put the ark of the covenant in it, and screen off the ark with the veil.
4. Bring in the table and set it. Then bring in the menorah and set up the lamps on it.
5. Put the golden altar of incense in front of the ark of the covenant, and hang the curtain at the entrance of the tabernacle.
6. Put the altar for burnt offerings in front of the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
7. Place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
8. Set up the court round about, and put the curtain at the gate of the court.
9. Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it, consecrating it and all its furnishings, so that it will be sacred.
10. Anoint the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils, consecrating it, so that it will be most sacred.
11. Likewise, anoint the basin with its stand, and thus consecrate it.
12. Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there wash them with water.