First ReadingExodus 40:16-21, 34-38
From the Book of Exodus
16Moses did so.According to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.
17In the first month in the second year,on the first day of the month,the tabernacle was raised up.18Moses raised up the tabernacle,and laid its sockets,and set up its boards,and put in its bars,and raised up its pillars.19He spread the covering over the tent,and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it,as the Lord commanded Moses.20He took and put the covenant into the ark,and set the poles on the ark,and put the mercy seat above on the ark.21He brought the ark into the tabernacle,and set up the veil of the screen,and screened the ark of the covenant,as the Lord commanded Moses.
verses 22–33 are not read34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting,and the Lord’s glory filled the tabernacle.35Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting,because the cloud stayed on it,and the Lord’s glory filled the tabernacle.36When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle,the children of Israel went onward,throughout all their journeys;37but if the cloud wasn’t taken up,then they didn’t travel until the daythat it was taken up.38For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day,and there was fire in the cloud by night,in the sight of all the house of Israel,throughout all their journeys.