The Bible

Exodus Chapter 25

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²"Tell the children of Israel, to take an offering for me. Take my offering from everyone whose heart makes him willing. ³Take this offering from them: gold, silver, bronze, ⁴blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, ⁵rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, ⁶oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, ⁷onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate. ⁸Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may live among them. ⁹Make it exactly as I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture.

¹⁰"Let them make an ark of acacia wood. It should be two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. ¹¹Overlay it with pure gold. Overlay it inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. ¹²Cast four rings of gold for it, and put them on its four feet. Let two rings be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. ¹³Make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴Put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. ¹⁵The poles must be in the rings of the ark. They mustn't be taken from it. ¹⁶Put the testimony which I'm about to give you into the ark. ¹⁷Make a mercy seat of pure gold. It will be two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide. ¹⁸Make two throne-angels of hammered gold. Make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. ¹⁹Make one throne-angel at the one end, and one throne-angel at the other end. Make the throne-angels on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. ²⁰The wings of the throne-angels will spread out upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the throne-angels are to be toward the mercy seat. ²¹Put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and put the testimony that I'm about to give you in the ark. ²²There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two throne-angels which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

²³"Make a table of acacia wood. Make it two cubits long, a cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high. ²⁴Overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. ²⁵Make a rim of a hand width around it. Make a golden molding on its rim around it. ²⁶Make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. ²⁷the rings are to be close to the rim, as places for the poles to carry the table. ²⁸Make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. ²⁹Make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. Make them of pure gold. ³⁰Always set bread of the presence on the table before me.

³¹Make a lampstand of pure gold. Make the lampstand of hammered work. Let its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers be of one piece with it. ³²There are to be six branches going out from its sides: three branches of the lampstand out from its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out from its other side; ³³three 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 lampstand; ³⁴and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; ³⁵and 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 lampstand. ³⁶Their buds and their branches are to be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold. ³⁷Make it with seven lamps, and they will raise up its lamps to give light to the space in front of it. ³⁸Its snuffers and its snuff dishes will be of pure gold. ³⁹Make it from a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. ⁴⁰See that you make them according to their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.