³⁷ “Make seven lamps^(A) on it. Its lamps are to be set up so they illuminate the area in front of it.

³³ Hang the veil under the clasps^[a] and bring the ark of the testimony there behind the veil, so the veil will make a separation for you between the holy place^(A) and the most holy place.

³⁵ Place the table outside the veil and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table; put the table on the north side.^(A)

³⁶ “For the entrance to the tent you are to make a screen embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.

The Courtyard

⁹ “You^(A) are to make the courtyard for the tabernacle. Make the hangings on the south of the courtyard out of finely spun linen, 150 feet^[a] long on that side.

¹⁶ The gate of the courtyard is to have a thirty-foot^[a] screen^(A) embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It is to have four posts including their four bases.

³⁸ “This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar every day: two year-old lambs.^(A)

⁵ Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

⁶ “You are to place the altar in front of the veil by the ark of the testimony—in front of the mercy seat that is over the testimony—where I will meet with you. ⁷ Aaron must burn fragrant incense on it; he must burn it every morning when he tends the lamps.^(A)

¹⁹ Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and feet from the basin. ²⁰ Whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister by burning up an offering to the Lord, they must wash with water so that they will not die.

Setting up the Tabernacle

40 The Lord spoke to Moses: ² “You are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.^{[a](A) 3} Put the ark^(B) of the testimony there and screen off the ark with the veil. ⁴ Then bring in the table and lay out its arrangement; also bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. ⁵ Place the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony. Put up the screen for the entrance to the tabernacle. ⁶ Position the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting. ⁷ Place the basin^(C) between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.