Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month. The first day of the first month of the second year after the Exodus: the tabernacle is to be set up at the beginning of a new year, the month of the Passover and liberation. The timing is theological: the dwelling place of God among His people is inaugurated in the month of liberation. What the Passover began — the liberation of a people for the worship of their God — the tabernacle's installation completes: the God who brought them out now dwells among them.

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