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Exodus 40:2

Exodus 40:2
On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

On the first day of the first month,.... Which was the month Nisan, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; which was the month the children of Israel came out of Egypt, out of which they had now been…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The first day of the first month - It Is generally supposed that the Israelites began the work of the tabernacle about the sixth month after they had left Egypt; and as the work was finished about the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Exodus 40:1-15

The materials and furniture of the tabernacle had been viewed severally and approved, and now they must be put together. 1. God here directs Moses to set up the tabernacle and the utensils of it in…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the first day of the first month viz. (v.17) of the second year of the Exodus, nine months since the arrival at Sinai (Exo 19:1).

the Dwelling of the tent of meeting as Exo 39:32.