16Moses did everything just as YHVH had commanded him. 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 YHVH 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 YHVH 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 YHVH, just as YHVH 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 YHVH, just as YHVH 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 YHVH 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 YHVH 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 YHVH 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.
34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of YHVH filled the tabernacle.35Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of YHVH filled the tabernacle.
36Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey. 37If the cloud was not lifted, they would not set out until the day it was taken up. 38For the cloud of YHVH was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.
Exodus 40:16-38
1On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, YHVH spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:2“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
3You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army. 4And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.
17So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, 18and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older, 19just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
47The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers. 48For the LORD had said to Moses: 49“Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.50Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.
51Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.
52The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard. 53But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”
54Thus the Israelites did everything just as YHVH had commanded Moses.
Numbers 1:1-4, 17-19, 47-54
15On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning. 16It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day,b and at night it would appear like fire.17Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp. 18At YHVH’s command the Israelites set out, and at YHVH’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.
19Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept YHVH’s charge and did not set out. 20Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at YHVH’s command and set out at YHVH’s command.21Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.
22Whether the cloud lingered for two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle; but when it was lifted, they would set out.23They camped at YHVH’s command, and they set out at YHVH’s command; they carried out YHVH’s charge according to His command through Moses.
Numbers 9:15-23
11On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony, 12and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran. 13They set out this first time according to YHVH’s command through Moses.
33So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of YHVH, with the ark of the covenant of YHVH traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.34And the cloud of YHVH was over them by day when they set out from the camp.
35Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say,
“Rise up, O YHVH!
May Your enemies be scattered;
may those who hate You flee before You.”
36And when it came to rest, he would say:
“Return, O YHVH,
to the countless thousands of Israel.”
Numbers 10:11-13, 33-36
35From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.
Numbers 11:35
16They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
17They set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
Numbers 33:16-17
16After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 12:16
18They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
19They set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.
20They set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.
21They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
22They set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
23They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
24They set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
25They set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
26They set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
27They set out from Tahath and camped at Terah.
28They set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
29They set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
30They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
31They set out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.
32They set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.
33They set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
34They set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
35They set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
36They set out from Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
Numbers 33:18-36
1And YHVH said to Moses, 2“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
3So at the consenta of YHVH, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,
17When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
21So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath. 22They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
23When they came to the Valley of Eshcol,b they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.24Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.
25After forty days the men returned from spying out the land, 26and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers 13:1-3, 17, 21-26
33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. 34In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.