On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
Parallel translations
- WEB On 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;
- KJV And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
- BSB On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.
- NKJV Now it came to pass, when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, that he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and the altar and all its utensils; so he anointed them and consecrated them.
- NASB Now on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated it with all its furnishings, and the altar and all its utensils; he anointed them and consecrated them also.
- NLT On the day Moses set up the Tabernacle, he anointed it and set it apart as holy. He also anointed and set apart all its furnishings and the altar with its utensils.
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Quick answer
On the day the tabernacle was set up and consecrated, its dedication offerings began.
Overview
This verse links back to the completed tabernacle (Exod 40) and sets the stage for its dedication. The anointing and sanctifying of the structure and its furnishings marked them as holy, fit for God's presence. The tabernacle where God dwelt among His people anticipates Christ, who 'tabernacled' among us (John 1:14).
Cross-references & the web
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- Lev 8:10–11Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.
- Num 7:84This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;
- Matt 23:19You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
- Gen 2:3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
- Lev 9:1–24On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
- Num 7:88and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.
- Exod 13:2“Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”
- Exod 40:9–10“You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy.
- Exod 40:17–19In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.
- 1 Kgs 8:64The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
- Exod 30:23–30“Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
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