Exodus 25

1Yahweh said to Moses,

2“Tell the Israelites to bring me a contribution. You are to receive my contribution from everyone whose heart moves him to give.

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

4blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

5ram skins dyed red, fine leather, and acacia wood;

6oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

7and onyx stones and other gems to be set in the ephod and the breastpiece.

8Have them make a sanctuary for me, so that I may dwell among them.

9You must make the tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly according to the pattern I am showing you.

10They 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.

11Overlay it with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.

12Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other.

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 with them.

15The poles are to stay in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it.

16Then put into the ark the testimony that I will give you.

17Make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

18Make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat.

19Make one cherub at one end and the other cherub at the other end. Make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.

20The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, and they are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

21Place the mercy seat on top of the ark, and put into the ark the testimony that I will give you.

22There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about everything I command you for the Israelites.

23Make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

24Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.

25Make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and put a gold molding around the rim.

26Make four gold rings for it and fasten the rings to the four corners where its four legs are.

27The rings are to be close to the rim, to hold the poles used to carry the table.

28Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table is to be carried with them.

29Make its plates and dishes, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them of pure gold.

30Put the bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.

31Make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered work: its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be of one piece with it.

32Six branches are to extend from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side.

33There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms on one branch, each with a bud and a blossom, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the next branch, each with a bud and a blossom. So it is to be for all six branches that extend from the lampstand.

34On the lampstand itself there are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with their buds and blossoms.

35A bud is to be under the first pair of branches extending from it, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair, for all six branches that extend from the lampstand.

36Their buds and their branches are to be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.

37Make its seven lamps, and set them up so that they light the space in front of it.

38Its wick trimmers and their trays are to be of pure gold.

39The lampstand and all these accessories are to be made from a talent of pure gold.

40See that you make them according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.