Tabernacle was Set up by Moses at Mount Sinai

When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.

Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.

On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,

…and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.