The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 40:5

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The altar of gold. See Exodus 30:1-10; Exodus 37:25-28. Before the ark of the testimony—i.e; "before the veil, opposite the ark of the testimony," not within the veil. See the comment on Exodus 30:6.

The hanging of the door—i.e; "the curtain which closed the front or eastern end of the tabernacle." (See Exodus 26:36; Exodus 36:37.

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