Adonoy spoke to Moshe saying.

“On the first day of the first month, you should set up the mishkon of the Tent of Meeting.

Place the ark of Testimony there, and spread [cover] the paroches (partition) over the ark.

Bring in the table and set it in order. Bring in the menorah and light its lamps.

Place the golden altar for burning incense [of spices], before the ark of Testimony. Place the screen at the mishkon’s entrance.

Place the burnt-offering altar in front of the entrance of the mishkon of the Tent of Meeting.

Place the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water into it.

Put up the enclosure all around, and set up the screen for the enclosure’s entrance.

Take the anointing oil, and anoint the mishkon and everything in it. Sanctify it and all its vessels so that it will become holy.

Anoint the burnt-offering altar and all its vessels. Sanctify the altar so that the altar becomes holy of holies.

Anoint the laver and its base and sanctify it.

Bring Aharon and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and immerse them in a mikveh.

Clothe Aharon with the sacred garments. Anoint him and sanctify him so that he may serve as a kohein to [before] Me.

Bring his sons and clothe them with undershirts.

Anoint them as you anointed their father, so that they may serve as kohanim to [before] Me. This should be done so that their anointing will make them an eternal kehunah throughout their generations.”

Moshe did according to all that Adonoy commanded him—so he did.

It was in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the mishkon was set up.

Moshe set up the mishkon, placed its sockets, put up its boards, put in its bars, and set up its pillars.

He spread the tent over the mishkon and placed the tent’s covering above it, just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.

He took the Testimony and placed it into the ark, put the poles on the ark, and put the cover on top of the ark.

He brought the ark into the mishkon and fastened the paroches (partition)-screen so that it covered the ark of Testimony, just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.

He placed the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the mishkon, outside the paroches (partition).

He set upon it an arrangement of bread before Adonoy, just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.

He placed the Menorah in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the mishkon.

He lit the lamps before Adonoy, just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.

He placed the golden altar inside the Tent of Meeting, in front of the paroches.

He burned the incense of spices upon it, just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.

He set up the screen at the mishkon’s entrance.

He placed the burnt-offering altar at the entrance of the mishkon of the Tent of Meeting. He sacrificed on it a burnt-offering and a meal-offering, just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.

He set the laver between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water into it for washing [sanctification].

Moshe, Aharon and his sons washed [would sanctify] their hands and feet from it,

when they came to the Tent of Meeting and when they approached the altar they would wash [sanctify themselves], just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.

He set up the enclosure around the mishkon and the altar, and put up the screen at the enclosure’s entrance, and thus Moshe completed the work.

The cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Adonoy filled the mishkon.

Moshe was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of Adonoy filled the mishkon.

When the cloud rose up from over the mishkon, the B’nei Yisrael would set out in all their travels.

If the cloud did not rise, they would not set out until the day that it rose.

For the cloud of [the Glory of] Adonoy was upon the mishkon by day, and there was a [vision of] fire in it by night, before the eyes of the entire Beis Yisrael, in all their travels.