17. In the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.
18. Moses erected the tabernacle and fastened its sockets, and set up its boards, and inserted its bars, and erected its pillars.
19. Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
20. He took the testimony and put it into the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.
21. And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screening, and screened the ark of the testimony, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
22. Then he put the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the veil.
23. He set the bread in order on it before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
24. And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
25. He lighted the lamps before the Lord, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
26. Then he put the gold altar in the tent of meeting before the veil.
27. And he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
28. Then he set up the curtain at the entrance of the tabernacle.
29. He put the altar of burnt offering by the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
30. Then he set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.
31. It was there Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.
32. Whenever they went into the tent of meeting, and whenever they came near the altar, they washed, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
33. He erected the courtyard all around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the curtain of the courtyard gate. So Moses finished the work.