Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

At once Moshe bowed his head to the ground, prostrated himself

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Write these words down, because they are the terms of the covenant I have made with you and with Isra'el."

Moshe was there with ADONAI forty days and forty nights, during which time he neither ate food nor drank water. [ADONAI] wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.

When Moshe came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, he didn't realize that the skin of his face was sending out rays of light as a result of his talking with [ADONAI].

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"On the first day of the first month, you are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

Put in it the ark for the testimony, and conceal the ark with the curtain.

Bring in the table, and arrange its display. Bring in the menorah, and light its lamps.

Set the gold altar for incense in front of the ark for the testimony, and set up the screen at the entrance to the tabernacle.

Place the altar for burnt offerings in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

Set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

Set up the courtyard all the way around, and hang up the screen for the entrance to the courtyard.

"Take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it -consecrate it with all its furnishings; then it will be holy.

Anoint the altar for burnt offerings with all its utensils - consecrate the altar; then the altar will be especially holy.

Anoint the basin and its base, and consecrate it.

"Then bring Aharon and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

Put the holy garments on Aharon, anoint him, and consecrate him, so that he can serve me in the office of cohen.

Bring his sons, put tunics on them,

and anoint them as you anointed their father, so that they can serve me in the office of cohen. Their anointing will signify that the office of cohen is theirs through all their generations."

Moshe did this - he acted in accordance with everything ADONAI had ordered him to do.

On the first day of the first month of the second year, the tabernacle was set up.

Moshe erected the tabernacle, put its sockets in place, put up its planks, put in its crossbars and set up its posts.

He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above it, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

He took and put the testimony inside the ark, put the poles on the ark, and set the ark-cover above, on the ark.

Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, set up the curtain as a screen and concealed the ark for the testimony, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.