Exodus 40:1
INTRODUCTION OF EXODUS 40
This chapter contains the order for setting up the tabernacle, and placing the furniture of it where it was the will of God it should be put, Ex 40:1 and for the anointing it, and all its vessels, and also Aaron and his sons, Ex 40:9 all which were accordingly done, the tabernacle was reared up, and everything was put in its proper place, Ex 40:16 upon which a cloud covered the tent, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle, so that Moses could not enter; which cloud afterwards was a direction in their journeys, by night and by day, Ex 40:34.
Ver. 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... When the tabernacle, and the work of it, were finished, and he had taken a survey of it, and everything belonging to it, which appeared to be done as was ordered:
saying; as follows.