² “^(A)On the first day of the first month you shall set up the ^[a]tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

¹⁷ Now ^(A)in the first month ^[a]of the second year, on the first day of the month, the ^[b]tabernacle was erected.

The Census of Israel’s Warriors

1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on ^(A)the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,