Exodus 25
1 The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 “Tell the Israelites to collect a contribution for me. From everyone whose heart moves them to give, you are to receive my contribution.
3 This is the contribution you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze;
4 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, and goat hair;
5 ram skins dyed red, fine leather, and acacia wood;
6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
7 onyx stones and stones to be set in the ephod and the breastpiece.
8 They are to make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among them.
9 Make it according to everything I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings. That is how you are to make it.
10 They are to make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
11 Overlay it with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
12 Cast four gold rings for it and attach them to its four feet: two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
13 Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.”
14 “Put the poles through the rings on the sides of the ark, so that the ark can be carried with them.
15 The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it.
16 Place inside the ark the Testimony that I will give you.
17 Make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
18 Make two cherubim of gold, hammered from gold, at the two ends of the cover.
19 Make one cherub at one end and the other cherub at the other end. The cherubim are to be made as one piece with the cover, at its two ends.
20 The cherubim are to spread their wings upward, overshadowing the cover with their wings. They are to face one another, with their faces turned toward the cover.
21 Place the cover on top of the ark, and put inside the ark the Testimony that I will give you.
22 There I will meet with you. From above the cover, from between the two cherubim over the ark of the Testimony, I will speak with you about everything I command you for the Israelites.
23 Make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
25 Make a rim a handbreadth wide around it, and make a gold molding around the rim.
26 Make four gold rings for it and put the rings at the four corners, beside its four legs.
27 The rings are to be close to the rim, as holders for the poles used to carry the table.”
28 “Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold; the table is to be carried with them.
29 Make its plates, cups, pitchers, and bowls for pouring out drink offerings. Make them of pure gold.
30 Place the bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
31 Make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base, and its shaft are to be hammered from gold; its cups, buds, and blossoms are to be one piece with it.
32 Six branches are to extend from its sides: three branches from one side of the lampstand and three branches from the other side.
33 On one branch there are to be three almond-shaped cups, each with a bud and a blossom; and on the other branch, three almond-shaped cups, each with a bud and a blossom. The same is to be true for all six branches extending from the lampstand.
34 On the lampstand there are to be four almond-shaped cups, with their buds and blossoms.
35 There is to be a bud beneath each pair of the six branches extending from it.
36 Their buds and branches are to be one piece with it, all of it hammered from a single piece of pure gold.
37 Make seven lamps for it, and set them up so that they light the space in front of it.
38 Its tongs and trays are to be of pure gold.
39 The lampstand, with all these utensils, is to be made from a talent of pure gold.
40 See that you make them according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.”
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