New International Version (NIV)
I. THE PEOPLE’S PREPARATIONS (Exodus 40:16-21, 29-30)
16. Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded him.
17. So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year.
18. When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted the crossbars and set up the posts.
19. Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, as the Lord commanded him.
20. He took the tablets of the covenant law and placed them in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it.
21. Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant law, as the Lord commanded him.
29. He set the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it burnt offerings and grain offerings, as the Lord commanded him.
30. He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing,
II. THE SIGN OF GOD’S BLESSING (Exodus 40:34, 38)
34. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
38. So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.