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.
13. Clothe Aaron with the sacred vestments and anoint him, thus consecrating him as my priest.
14. Bring forward his sons also, and clothe them with the tunics.
15. As you have anointed their father, anoint them also as my priests. Thus, by being anointed, shall they receive a perpetual priesthood throughout all future generations.
16. Moses did just as the Lord had commanded him.
17. On the first day of the first month of the second year the tabernacle was set up.
18. It was Moses who set up the tabernacle. He placed its pedestals, set up its frames, put in its bars, and set up its columns.