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Setting Up the Tabernacle

Exodus 40:17

In 11 translations

BSB
So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
KJV
¶ 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.
WEB
In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.
ASV
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.
LSV
And it comes to pass, in the first month, in the second year, on the first of the month, the Dwelling Place has been raised up;
YLT
And it cometh to pass, in the first month, in the second year, in the first of the month, the tabernacle hath been raised up;
DBY
And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first of the month, that the tabernacle was set up.
DRC40:15
So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.
GNV
Thus was the Tabernacle reared vp the first day of the first moneth in the seconde yeere.
JPS
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.
LXXE
And it came to pass in the first month, in the second year after their going forth out of Egypt, at the new moon, that the tabernacle was set up.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיְהִ֞י בַּחֹ֧דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֛וֹן בַּשָּׁנָ֥ה הַשֵּׁנִ֖ית בְּאֶחָ֣ד לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ הוּקַ֖ם הַמִּשְׁכָּֽן׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ μηνὶ τῷ πρώτῳ, τῷ δευτέρῳ ἔτει, ἐκπορευομένων αὐτῶν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, νουμηνίᾳ ἐστάθη ἡ σκηνή.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 7:1On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.
  • Exodus 40:1–2Then the LORD said to Moses, “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
  • Numbers 9:1In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 40:15 in some Bibles
  • 40:17 in most Bibles
  • Mapping unverified: STEPBible TVTMS has rules for this verse in this edition's tradition that would place it elsewhere, but their tests did not match this edition.

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