Exodus 40:2
On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
Exodus 40:2 in other translations
| BSB | “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting. |
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| WEB | “On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. |
| ASV | On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. |
| YLT | ‘On the first day of the month, in the first month, thou dost raise up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, |
| DARBY | On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. |
| BBE | On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting. |
| Webster | On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. |
What does Exodus 40:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Ex 40:1-38. The Tabernacle Reared and Anointed.
2. On the first day of the first month--From a careful consideration of the incidents recorded to have happened after the exodus (Ex 12:2; 13:4; 19:1; 20:18; 34:28, &c.), it has been computed that the work of the tabernacle was commenced within six months after that emigration; and consequently, that other six months had been occupied in building it. So long a period spent in preparing the materials of a movable pavilion, it would be difficult to understand, were it not for what we are told of the vast dimensions of the tabernacle, as well as the immense variety of curious and elaborate workmanship which its different articles of furniture required. the tabernacle--the entire edifice. the tent--the covering that surmounted it (Ex 40:19).Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 40:1-15
When a new year begins, we should seek to serve God better than the year before. In half a year the tabernacle was completed. When the hearts of numbers are earnest in a good cause, much may be done in a short time; and when the commandments of God are continually attended to, as the rule of working, all will be done well. The high-priesthood was in the family of Aaron till Christ came, and in Him, the substance of…
Exodus 40:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 40:2
- Exodus 26:30
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
- Exodus 13:4
This day came ye out in the month Abib.
- Exodus 12:1-2
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Numbers 7:1
And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
- Exodus 40:17-19
And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Numbers 1:1
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Exodus 30:36
And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
- Exodus 26:1
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 36:18
And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
- Exodus 26:7
And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
- Exodus 27:21
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 35:11
The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
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Context
- Exodus 40:1
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
- Exodus 40:2
On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
- Exodus 40:3
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
Exodus 40:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | En el primer día del mes primero harás levantar el tabernáculo, el tabernáculo del testimonio: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Au premier mois, le premier jour du mois, tu dresseras le tabernacle de la tente d’assignation; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Am Tage des ersten Monats, am Ersten des Monats, sollst du die Wohnung des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft aufrichten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Mense primo, prima die mensis, eriges tabernaculum testimonii, |