So the Tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.
- 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.
- BSB So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
- NKJV And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.
- NASB Now in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.
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Quick answer
The tabernacle was erected on the first day of the first month in the second year after the exodus. This dating marks a fresh beginning as God comes to dwell among His redeemed people.
Overview
Almost a year after leaving Egypt, Israel completes God's dwelling place at the start of a new year. The precise date frames the tabernacle's raising as a milestone in the nation's life with God. The God who redeemed them now establishes His presence in their midst, foreshadowing the deeper dwelling of God with humanity in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Num 7:1On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;
- Num 9:1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Exod 40:1–2Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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