The tabernacle is set up
Exodus 25–31; 35–40; Hebrews 8:1–5; 9:1–14; John 1:14
On the first day of the second year, Moses set up the tabernacle, and the cloud of God's glory filled it.
Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:34 (World English Bible)
God had given Moses a detailed pattern: a courtyard with a bronze altar and basin, and a tent with a Holy Place (lampstand, table of bread, incense altar) and a Most Holy Place holding the ark of the covenant. The people gave so generously that Moses had to tell them to stop.
When it was finished, God's glory filled the tent so that even Moses couldn't enter. Hebrews calls the tabernacle “a copy and shadow of the heavenly things” (8:5), and John says the Word became flesh and “tabernacled” among us (John 1:14).
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Dating notes
The first day of the first month of the second year (Exodus 40:17). Ussher lists this under AM 2514 and computes it as 21 April (Julian); counting from a spring 1491 BC Exodus, that falls in spring 1490 BC, the date used here.