New International Reader's Version

Exodus 40:4-9 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

4. Bring in the table for the holy bread. Arrange the loaves of bread on it. Then bring in the lampstand. Set up its lamps.

5. Place the gold altar for burning incense in front of the ark where the tablets of the covenant are kept. Put up the curtain at the entrance to the holy tent.

6. "Place the altar for burnt offerings in front of the entrance to the holy tent, the Tent of Meeting.

7. Place the large bowl between the Tent of Meeting and the altar. Put water in the bowl.

8. "Set up the courtyard around the holy tent. Put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.

9. "Get the anointing oil. Anoint the holy tent and everything that is in it. Set apart the holy tent and everything that belongs to it. Then it will be holy.