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Exodus 25

¹Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

²"Tell the children of Israel to take an offering for Me. From every man whose heart moves him [to give willingly] you shall take My offering.

³This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

⁴blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, fine twisted linen, goats' hair,

⁵rams'[1] skins dyed red,[2] porpoise skins,[3] acacia wood,

⁶[olive] oil for lighting,[4] balsam for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

⁷[5] onyx stones and setting stones for the [priest's] ephod and for the breastpiece.

⁸Have them build a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

⁹You shall construct it in accordance with everything that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture.

¹⁰"They shall make an ark of acacia wood two and a half[6] cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

¹¹You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, overlay it inside and out, and you shall make a gold border (frame) around its top.

¹²You shall cast four gold rings for it and attach them to the four feet, two rings on either side.

¹³You shall make [carrying] poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold,

¹⁴and put the poles through the rings on the sides of the ark, by which to carry it.

¹⁵The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it [so that the ark itself need not be touched].

¹⁶You shall put into the ark the Testimony (Ten Commandments) which I will give you.

¹⁷"You shall make a[7] mercy seat (cover) of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

¹⁸You shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold at the two ends of the mercy seat.

¹⁹Make one cherub at each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.

²⁰The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing each other. The faces of the cherubim are to be looking downward toward the mercy seat.

²¹You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony which I will give you.

²²There I will meet with you; from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, I will speak [intimately] with you regarding every commandment that I will give you for the Israelites.

²³"You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

²⁴You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a border of gold around the top of it.

²⁵You shall make a rim of a hand width around it; you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

²⁶You shall make four gold rings for it and fasten them at the four corners that are on the table's four legs.

²⁷The rings shall be close against the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.

²⁸You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

²⁹You shall make its plates [for the showbread] and its cups [for incense] and its pitchers and bowls for sacrificial drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

³⁰You shall set the bread of the[8] Presence (showbread) on the table before Me at all times.

³¹"You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The[9] lampstand and its base and its shaft shall be made of hammered work; its cups, its[10] calyxes and its flowers shall be all of one piece with it.

³²Six branches shall come out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side [the shaft being the seventh branch].

³³Three cups shall be made like almond blossoms, each with a calyx and a flower on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms on the other branch with a calyx and a flower—so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand;

³⁴and in the [center shaft of the] lampstand [you shall make] four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and their flowers.

³⁵A calyx shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a calyx under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a calyx under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

³⁶Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

³⁷Then you shall make the lamps [of the lampstand][11] seven in number [with one lamp at the top of the shaft]. The priests shall set up its seven lamps so that they will light the space in front of it.

³⁸Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold.

³⁹It shall be made from a talent (50-80 lbs.) of pure gold, including all these utensils.

⁴⁰See that you make them [exactly] after their pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.