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1 The
LORD spoke to
Moses, saying,
2 “Speak
to the children
of Israel, that
they take an
offering for me.
From everyone
whose heart makes
him willing you
shall take my
offering.
3 This
is the offering
which you shall
take from them:
gold, silver,
bronze,
4 blue,
purple, scarlet,
fine linen, goats’
hair,
5 rams’ skins
dyed red, sea cow hides,
acacia wood,
6 oil
for the light,
spices for the
anointing oil and
for the sweet
incense,
7 onyx stones,
and stones to be set
for the ephod and
for the
breastplate.
8 Let them
make me a
sanctuary, that I
may dwell among
them.
9 According to
all that I
show you, the
pattern of the
tabernacle, and
the pattern of
all of its
furniture, even so
you shall make
it.
10 “They
shall make an ark
of acacia wood.
Its length shall
be two and
a half cubits,
its width a cubit
and a half,
and a cubit and
a half its
height.
11 You
shall overlay it
with pure gold.
You shall overlay
it inside and
outside, and you
shall make a
gold molding
around it.
12 You
shall cast four
rings of gold
for it, and
put them in
its four feet. Two
rings shall be
on the one
side of it,
and two rings
on the other
side of it.
13 You
shall make poles
of acacia wood,
and overlay them
with gold.
14 You shall
put the poles into
the rings on
the sides of
the ark to carry
the ark.
15 The poles
shall be in
the rings of
the ark. They
shall not be
taken from it.
16 You shall
put the covenant which
I shall give you
into the ark.
17 You
shall make a
mercy seat of
pure gold. Two
and a half cubits
shall be its length,
and a cubit and
a half its
width.
18 You
shall make two
cherubim of
hammered gold. You
shall make them
at the two
ends of the
mercy seat.
19 Make
one cherub at
the one end,
and one cherub
at the other
end. You shall
make the cherubim
on its two
ends of one piece
with the mercy
seat.
20 The
cherubim shall
spread out their
wings upward,
covering the mercy
seat with their
wings, with their
faces toward one
another. The faces
of the cherubim
shall be toward
the mercy seat.
21 You shall
put the mercy
seat on top
of the ark, and
in the ark
you shall put
the covenant that
I will give
you.
22 There
I will meet
with you, and
I will tell
you from above
the mercy seat,
from between the
two cherubim which
are on the ark
of the covenant,
all that I
command you for
the children of
Israel.
23 “You
shall make a
table of acacia
wood. Its length
shall be
two cubits, and
its width a cubit,
and its height
one and a
half cubits.
24 You
shall overlay it
with pure gold,
and make a
gold molding
around it.
25 You
shall make a
rim of a
hand width around
it. You shall
make a golden
molding on its
rim around it.
26 You
shall make four
rings of gold
for it, and
put the rings
in the four
corners that are
on its four feet.
27 The
rings shall be
close to the
rim, for places
for the poles to
carry the table.
28 You
shall make
the poles of
acacia wood, and
overlay them with
gold, that the
table may be
carried with them.
29 You
shall make its
dishes, its spoons,
its ladles, and
its bowls with
which to pour
out offerings. You
shall make them
of pure gold.
30 You
shall set bread
of the presence
on the table
before me always.
31 “You
shall make a lamp
stand of pure gold.
The lamp stand shall
be made of
hammered work. Its
base, its shaft,
its cups, its
buds, and its
flowers shall be
of one piece
with it.
32 There shall
be six branches
going out of
its sides: three
branches of
the lamp stand out
of its one
side, and three
branches of
the lamp stand out
of its other
side;
33 three
cups made like
almond blossoms in
one branch, a
bud and a
flower; and three
cups made like
almond blossoms in
the other branch,
a bud and
a flower, so
for the six
branches going out
of the lamp stand;
34 and
in the lamp stand four cups made
like almond
blossoms, its buds
and its flowers;
35 and
a bud under two
branches of
one piece with it,
and a bud under
two branches of
one piece with it,
and a bud under
two branches of
one piece with it,
for the six
branches going out
of the lamp stand.
36 Their buds
and their branches
shall be of
one piece with
it, all of
it one beaten
work of pure
gold.
37 You
shall make its
lamps seven, and
they shall light
its lamps to
give light to
the space in
front of it.
38 Its
snuffers and its snuff dishes
shall be of pure
gold.
39 It
shall be made
of a talent
of pure gold,
with all
these accessories.
40 See
that you make
them after their
pattern, which
has been shown to
you on the
mountain.