'Set' in the Bible

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took God’s staff in his hand.

Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s slave drivers had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why haven’t you finished making your prescribed number of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”

And the Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”

They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

The Egyptians set out in pursuit—all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen—and went into the sea after them.

He told them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, and set aside everything left over to be kept until morning.’”

So they set it aside until morning as Moses commanded, and it didn’t smell or have any maggots in it.

“These are the ordinances that you must set before them:

“Whoever sacrifices to any gods, except the Lord alone, is to be set apart for destruction.

I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.

And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and 12 pillars for the 12 tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the testimony that I will give you into the ark.

“Make seven lamps on it. Its lamps are to be set up so they illuminate the area in front of it.

Make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain in the first set, and do the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

Make 50 loops on the one curtain and make 50 loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops line up together.

Make 50 loops on the edge of the one curtain, the outermost in the first set, and make 50 loops on the edge of the corresponding curtain of the second set.

You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you have been shown on the mountain.

Set it below, under the altar’s ledge, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

“Make a bronze basin for washing and a bronze stand for it. Set it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

Now Moses took a tent and set it up outside the camp, far away from the camp; he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone who wanted to consult the Lord would go to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.

He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain in the first set and did the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

He made 50 loops on the one curtain and 50 loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops lined up with each other.

He made 50 loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set and 50 loops on the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.

“You are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.

Then bring in the table and lay out its arrangement; also bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

The tabernacle was set up in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month.

Moses set up the tabernacle: he laid its bases, positioned its planks, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.

Moses took the testimony and placed it in the ark, and attached the poles to the ark. He set the mercy seat on top of the ark.

and set up the lamps before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded him.

He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

Next Moses set up the surrounding courtyard for the tabernacle and the altar and hung a screen for the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey.

If the cloud was not taken up, they did not set out until the day it was taken up.