25:1 | AND THE Lord said to Moses,

25:2 | Speak to the Israelites, that they take for Me an offering. From every man who gives it willingly and ungrudgingly with his heart you shall take My offering.

25:3 | This is the offering you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

25:6 | Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil and for sweet incense,

25:7 | Onyx stones, and stones for setting in the ephod and in the breastplate.

25:8 | Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

25:9 | And you shall make it according to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle or dwelling and the pattern of all the furniture of it.

25:10 | They shall 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.

25:11 | You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold crown, a rim or border, around its top.

25:12 | You shall cast four gold rings and attach them to the four lower corners of it, two rings on either side.

25:13 | You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold,

25:15 | The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it [that the ark be not touched].

25:16 | And you shall put inside the ark the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] which I will give you.

25:17 | And you shall make a mercy seat (a covering) of pure gold, two cubits and a half long and a cubit and a half wide.

25:18 | And you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat.

25:19 | Make one cherub on each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat, on the two ends of it.

25:20 | And the cherubim shall spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, facing each other and looking down toward the mercy seat.

25:21 | You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] that I will give you.

25:22 | There I will meet with you and, from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the Testimony, I will speak intimately with you of all which I will give you in commandment to the Israelites.

25:23 | Also, make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high [for the showbread].

25:24 | You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a crown, a rim or molding, of gold around the top of it;

25:25 | And make a frame of a handbreadth around and below the top of it and put around it a gold molding as a border.

25:27 | Close against the frame shall the rings be as places for the poles to pass to carry the table [of showbread].

25:28 | You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

25:29 | And you shall make its plates [for showbread] and cups [for incense], and its flagons and bowls [for liquids in sacrifice]; make them of pure gold.

25:30 | And you shall set the showbread (the bread of the Presence) on the table before Me always.

25:31 | You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of beaten and turned work shall the lampstand be made, both its base and its shaft; its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

25:32 | Six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side and three branches out of its other side;

25:33 | Three cups made like almond blossoms, each with a knob and a flower on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms on the other branch with a knob and a flower; so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand;

25:34 | And on the [center shaft] itself you shall [make] four cups like almond blossoms with their knobs and their flowers.

25:35 | Also make a knob [on the shaft] under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand and one piece with it;

25:36 | Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.

25:37 | And you shall make the lamps of the [lampstand] to include a seventh one [at the top of the shaft]. [The priests] shall set up the [seven] lamps of it so they may give light in front of it.

25:38 | Its snuffers and its ashtrays shall be of pure gold.

25:39 | Use a talent of pure gold for it, including all these utensils.

25:40 | And see to it that you copy [exactly] their pattern which was shown you on the mountain.