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Exodus 40:2

Exodus 40:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

On the first day of the first month. The first of Abib, or Nisan, the "New Year's Day" of Israel, coinciding nearly with the opening of the vernal equinox, a very suitable day for the inauguration of a place of worship.

The tabernacle was to be set up first of all; then the tent was to be placed over it. See , .

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