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# Exodus 40

Exodus 40 is chapter 40 of 40 in the Book of Exodus. Here are all 36 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The tabernacle is commanded to be set up and anointed. God filleth it with his majesty.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Exodus 40 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2. “In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall raise the tabernacle of the testimony,
3. and you shall place the ark in it, and you shall release the veil before it.
4. And having brought in the table, you shall place the things which were solemnly commanded upon it. The lampstand shall stand with its lamps,
5. and the altar of gold, in which the incense is burned, shall stand before the ark of the testimony. You shall place the tent at the entrance of the tabernacle,
6. and before it, the altar of holocaust.
7. The washtub shall stand between the altar and the tabernacle, and you shall fill it with water.
8. And you shall encompass the atrium and its entrance with hangings.
9. And, having taken up the oil of unction, you shall anoint the tabernacle along with its articles, so that they may be sanctified.
10. The altar of holocaust and all its vessels,
11. the washtub with its base, and all things, you shall consecrate with the oil of unction, so that they may be the Holy of holies.
12. And you shall bring forward Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tabernacle of the testimony, and, having washed them with water,
13. you shall clothe them in the holy vestments, so that they may minister to me, and so that their unction may accomplish an everlasting priesthood.”
14. And Moses did all that the Lord had instructed.
15. Therefore, in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was put in place.
16. And Moses raised it up, and he positioned the panels as well as the bases and the bars, and he set up the columns,
17. and he stretched out the roof over the tabernacle, imposing a cover above it, just as the Lord had decreed.
18. And he placed the testimony in the ark, applying the bars beneath, and the oracle above.
19. And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the veil before it, in order to fulfill the commandment of the Lord.
20. And he placed the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, at the north side, beyond the veil,
21. arranging before it the bread of the presence, just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
22. And he placed the lampstand in the tabernacle of the testimony, away from the table, on the south side,
23. setting the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord.
24. He also positioned the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony, opposite the veil,
25. and he heaped upon it the incense of aromatics, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
26. And he positioned the tent at the entrance of the tabernacle of the testimony,
27. and the altar of holocaust in the vestibule of the testimony, offering the holocaust and the sacrifices upon it, just as the Lord had decreed.
28. Likewise, he stationed the washtub between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, filling it with water.
29. And Moses and Aaron, along with his sons, washed their hands and feet,
30. whenever they would enter the covering of the covenant, and when they approached to the altar, just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
31. And he raised up the atrium around the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging at its entrance. After all these things were perfected,
32. the cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.
33. Neither could Moses enter the covering of the covenant: the cloud was covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord was flashing. For the cloud had covered everything.
34. Whenever the cloud departed from the tabernacle, the sons of Israel set out by their companies.
35. But if it remained hanging over it, they remained in the same place.
36. Certainly, the cloud of the Lord lay over the tabernacle by day, and the fire by night, being seen by all the people of Israel throughout all their resting places.

## Exodus 40 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
2. Mense primo, prima die mensis, eriges tabernaculum testimonii,
3. et pones in eo arcam, dimittesque ante illam velum:
4. et illata mensa, pones super eam quæ rite præcepta sunt. Candelabrum stabit cum lucernis suis,
5. et altare aureum, in quo adoletur incensum, coram arca testimonii. Tentorium in introitu tabernaculi pones,
6. et ante illud altare holocausti:
7. labrum inter altare et tabernaculum, quod implebis aqua.
8. Circumdabisque atrium tentoriis, et ingressum ejus.
9. Et assumpto unctionis oleo unges tabernaculum cum vasis suis, ut sanctificentur:
10. altare holocausti et omnia vasa ejus,
11. labrum cum basi sua: omnia unctionis oleo consecrabis, ut sint Sancta sanctorum.
12. Applicabisque Aaron et filios ejus ad fores tabernaculi testimonii, et lotos aqua
13. indues sanctis vestibus, ut ministrent mihi, et unctio eorum in sacerdotium sempiternum proficiat.
14. Fecitque Moyses omnia quæ præceperat Dominus.
15. Igitur mense primo anni secundi, prima die mensis, collocatum est tabernaculum.
16. Erexitque Moyses illud, et posuit tabulas ac bases et vectes, statuitque columnas,
17. et expandit tectum super tabernaculum, imposito desuper operimento, sicut Dominus imperaverat.
18. Posuit et testimonium in arca, subditis infra vectibus, et oraculum desuper.
19. Cumque intulisset arcam in tabernaculum, appendit ante eam velum ut expleret Domini jussionem.
20. Posuit et mensam in tabernaculo testimonii ad plagam septentrionalem extra velum,
21. ordinatis coram propositionis panibus, sicut præceperat Dominus Moysi.
22. Posuit et candelabrum in tabernaculo testimonii e regione mensæ in parte australi,
23. locatis per ordinem lucernis, juxta præceptum Domini.
24. Posuit et altare aureum sub tecto testimonii contra velum,
25. et adolevit super eo incensum aromatum, sicut jusserat Dominus Moysi.
26. Posuit et tentorium in introitu tabernaculi testimonii,
27. et altare holocausti in vestibulo testimonii, offerens in eo holocaustum, et sacrificia, ut Dominus imperaverat.
28. Labrum quoque statuit inter tabernaculum testimonii et altare, implens illud aqua.
29. Laveruntque Moyses et Aaron ac filii ejus manus suas et pedes,
30. cum ingrederentur tectum fœderis, et accederent ad altare, sicut præceperat Dominus Moysi.
31. Erexit et atrium per gyrum tabernaculi et altaris, ducto in introitu ejus tentorio. Postquam omnia perfecta sunt,
32. operuit nubes tabernaculum testimonii, et gloria Domini implevit illud.
33. Nec poterat Moyses ingredi tectum fœderis, nube operiente omnia, et majestate Domini coruscante, quia cuncta nubes operuerat.
34. Siquando nubes tabernaculum deserebat, proficiscebantur filii Israël per turmas suas:
35. si pendebat desuper, manebant in eodem loco.
36. Nubes quippe Domini incubabat per diem tabernaculo, et ignis in nocte, videntibus cunctis populis Israël per cunctas mansiones suas.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2058: The Ten Commandments ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 697: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Jul 29, 2027 (computed): Sts. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus — First Reading, Exodus 40:16-21, 34-38

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).