Reading I
Exod 40:16-21, 34-38
And Moses reared it up, and placed the boards and the sockets and the bars, and set up the pillars,
And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded.
And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.
And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the veil before it to fulfil the commandment of the Lord.
And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, at the north side, without the veil,
Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward by their troops:
If it hung over, they remained in the same place.
For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a fire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout all their mansions.
