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Exodus 40:18
When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records Moses acting as the sole agent on the first day of the first month of the second year, immediately after the tabernacle's structural components were prepared. This moment follows the divine command to erect the tent and precedes the application of the outer coverings.
The words — The Hebrew verb וַיָּקֶם (va/yakem) literally means "he set up" or "he caused to stand," indicating the physical erection of the structure. The noun אֲדָנָיו (adanav) translates to "its bases," referring to the foundational sockets that supported the tabernacle's framework.
The thread — The assembly sequence directly fulfills the construction specifications detailed in Exodus 26:15 and Exodus 36:20 regarding the upright frames. The timing aligns with the explicit command in Exodus 40:2 to place the tabernacle on the first day of the first month.
Why it lands — The text requires attention to the exact sequence of physical actions before any theological or ceremonial application. A reader must observe that the sacred structure is completed component by component, leaving no room for omitted steps or altered order.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
Cross-references
- Exodus 26:15 You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
- Exodus 36:20 Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
- Exodus 40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 26:11 And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
- Isaiah 33:24 And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.
- Ezekiel 37:27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Matthew 16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- 1 Timothy 3:15 in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
- 1 Peter 1:5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.