16 Moses did everything just as the LORD had commanded him. 17In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up. 18Moses set up the tabernacle; he laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars; 19and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 20He took the covenant[100] and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat[99] above the ark; 21and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the curtain for screening, and screened the ark of the covenant;[100] as the LORD had commanded Moses. 22He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain, 23and set the bread in order on it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 24He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, 25and set up the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 26He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the curtain, 27and offered fragrant incense on it; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 28He also put in place the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle. 29He set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering as the LORD had commanded Moses. 30He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing, 31with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet. 32When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed; as the LORD had commanded Moses. 33He set up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and put up the screen at the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 36Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on each stage of their journey; 37but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up. 38For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud[101] by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel at each stage of their journey.
[1] Sam Gk Tg: Heb lacks to the Hebrews
[2] Heb Mosheh
[3] Heb mashah
[4] Heb ger
[5] Or I AM WHAT I AM or I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE
[6] The word “LORD” when spelled with capital letters stands for the divine name, YHWH, which is here connected with the verb hayah, “to be”
[7] Gk Vg: Heb no, not by a mighty hand
[8] A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain
[9] Heb his
[10] Sam: Heb The people of the land are now many
[11] Gk Compare Syr Vg: Heb beaten, and the sin of your people
[12] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
[13] Heb YHWH; see note at 3.15
[14] Heb me? I am uncircumcised of lips
[15] Or Saul
[16] Also spelled Gershom; see 2.22
[17] Heb am uncircumcised of lips; see 6.12
[18] Ch 7.26 in Heb
[19] Gk: Heb upon your people
[20] Ch 8.1 in Heb
[21] Or frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh
[22] Gk Vg: Heb will set redemption
[23] Or Sea of Reeds
[24] Or as a frontlet; meaning of Heb uncertain
[25] Or Sea of Reeds
[26] Sam Gk Syr: MT removed
[27] Or song
[28] Or Sea of Reeds
[29] Or Sea of Reeds
[30] That is Bitterness
[31] Or a tree
[32] Heb he
[33] Or “It is manna” (Heb man hu, see verse 31)
[34] Or treaty or testimony; Heb eduth