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Ch. XL. cle and put over it the upper covering of the tabernacle as the Lord commanded Moses. Then taking hte testimonies he put them in the ark, and put the staves under the ark, and carried the ark into the tabernacle and hung up the covering of the veil and covered from view the ark of the testimony in the manner the Lord commanded Moses. Then he placed the table in hte tabernacle of the tstimony, on the north side without the veil of the tabernacle and set thereon the presence loaves before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses. Then he placed the candlestick in the tabernacle of the testimony on the south side of the tabernacle and put the lamps thereon before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. He then placed the golden altar in the tabernacle of the testimony over against the veil and burned theron compound incense as the Lord comanded Moses. Then he placed the altar of homage offerings at the doors of the tabernacle and reared up the court around the tabernacle and hte altar. And when Moses had finished all these works the cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord so that Moses could not go intot he tabernacle of the testimony, because the cloud overshadowed it and with the glory of the Lord the tabernacle was filled.

Now when the cloud ascended from the tabernacle, the Israelites prepared to march with their baggage. But if the cloud did not ascend they did not prepare to march till the day when the cloud ascended. For there was a cloud on the tabernacle by day and in the night there was a fire on it in the sight of all Israel throughout all their journeyings.



 I. Then the Lord called up Moses and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of the testimony saying, Speak to the children 2 of Israel and thou shalt say to them. When any man among you bringeth gifts to the Lord from your cattle, you shall 3 bring them either from the flocks or the herds. If his gift be a whole burnt offering from the herd, he shall bring a male without blemish to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. 4 He shall bring it before the Lord for acceptance ; and he shiill VOL. I.