~ The Tabernacle Is Set Up, and the Cloud Leads ~

Then the Lord said to Moses:
"Set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting,
on the first day of the month."

. . . Then Moses set up
the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar
and put up the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.
And so Moses finished the work.

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting,
and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting
because the cloud had settled upon it,
and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

In all the travels of the Israelites,
whenever the cloud lifted from the tabernacle,
they would set out;
but if the cloud did not lift,
they did not set out -- until the day it lifted.
So the cloud of the Lord
was over the tabernacle by day,
and fire was in the cloud by night,
in the sight of all the house of Israel
during all their travels.

(Exodus 40: 1-2, 34-38)