Exodus 40:17

Modern

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

Traditional

And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

Literal

And it came to pass, in the first month of the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.

Latin

Igitur mense primo anni secundi, prima die mensis, collocatum est tabernaculum.

Hebrew

English

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

The report on setting up the Tent of Meeting starts with the Lord's commands (40:1–15). It continues with how Moses obeyed those commands (40:16–33).
The repeated statement that "Moses did everything just as the LORD had commanded" (40:16, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 32) strongly contrasts with Aaron’s self-serving statement in 32:22–24. God wants to share his presence with us, but his holiness requires us to give up our own efforts to secure his presence and gifts.

Theme notes and profiles

Numbers 7:1
On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.
Exodus 40:1–2
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 9:1
In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai: