Exodus 40:2
Good News Translation
"On the first day of the first month set up the Tent of the LORD's presence.

New Revised Standard Version
On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Contemporary English Version
Set up my tent on the first day of the year

New American Bible
On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the testimony,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the testimony,

the first month

Exodus 40:17 So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.

Exodus 12:1,2 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: . . .

Exodus 13:4 This day you go forth in the month of new corn.

Numbers 7:1 And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,

tabernacle

Exodus 40:6,18,19 And before it the altar of holocaust. . . .

Exodus 26:1,7,30 And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt make ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery. . . .

Exodus 27:21 In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel.

Exodus 30:36 And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I will appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be unto you.

Exodus 35:11 To wit, the tabernacle, and the roof thereof, and the cover, the rings, and the board-work with the bars, the pillars and the sockets:

Exodus 36:18 And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit together, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering.

Context
Setting Up the Tabernacle
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the testimony,3And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before it:…
Cross References
Exodus 19:1
In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai:

Exodus 40:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Exodus 40:17
So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.

Numbers 1:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of Egypt, saying:

Numbers 9:1
The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying:

Numbers 9:15
Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered it. But from the evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire until the morning.

1 Chronicles 17:5
For I have not remained in a house from the time that I brought up Israel, to this day: but I have been always changing places in a tabernacle, and in a tent,

Exodus 40:1
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