17So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
18When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.
19Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.
20Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.
21Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.
22Moses placed the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.
23He arranged the bread on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
24He also placed 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, just as the LORD had commanded him.
26Moses placed the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting, in front of the veil,
27and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.
28Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
29He placed the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the LORD had commanded him.
30He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing;
31and from it Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and feet.
32They washed whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
33And Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.