Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

He put the table in the tent of meeting on the side of the tabernacle facing north, outside the curtain.

He arranged a row of bread on it before ADONAI, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

He put the menorah in the tent of meeting across from the table, on the side of the tabernacle facing south.

Then he lit the lamps before ADONAI, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

He set the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain

and burned on it incense made from aromatic spices, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

He set up the screen at the entrance to the tabernacle.

The altar for burnt offerings he placed at the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing,

so that Moshe and Aharon and his sons could wash their hands and feet there -

so that they could wash when entering the tent of meeting and when approaching the altar, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

Finally, he erected the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar and set up the screen for the entrance to the courtyard.

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of ADONAI filled the tabernacle.

Moshe was unable to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud remained on it, and the glory of ADONAI filled the tabernacle.

Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Isra'el continued with all their travels.

But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not travel onward until the day when it was taken up.

For the cloud of ADONAI was above the tabernacle during the day, and fire was in [the cloud] at night, so that all the house of Isra'el could see it throughout all their travels.

ADONAI spoke to Moshe in the Sinai Desert, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt. He said,

"Take a census of the entire assembly of the people of Isra'el, by clans and families. Record the names of all the men

twenty years old and over who are subject to military service in Isra'el. You and Aharon are to enumerate them company by company.

Take with you from each tribe someone who is head of a clan.

These are the men to take with you: From Re'uven, Elitzur the son of Sh'de'ur;

From Shim'on, Shlumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai;

From Y'hudah, Nachshon the son of 'Amminadav;

From Yissakhar, N'tan'el the son of Tzu'ar;