• Offerings for the Sanctuary

  • 1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 2 “Tell the sons of Israel to take a contribution for Me; from everyone whose heart moves him you shall take My contribution.
  • 3 This is the contribution which you are to take from them: gold, silver, and bronze,
  • 4 violet, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen, goat hair,
  • 5 rams’ skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,
  • 6 oil for lighting, balsam oil for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
  • 7 onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
  • 8 Have them construct a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
  • 9 According to all that I am going to show you as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, so you shall construct it.

  • Ark of the Covenant

  • 10 “Now they shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.
  • 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
  • 12 You shall also cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet; two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
  • 13 And you shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
  • 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.
  • 15 The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.
  • 16 You shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.
  • 17 “And you shall make an atoning cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
  • 18 You shall make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the atoning cover.
  • 19 Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the atoning cover at its two ends.
  • 20 And the cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the atoning cover with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the atoning cover.
  • 21 Then you shall put the atoning cover on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you.
  • 22 There I will meet with you; and from above the atoning cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about every commandment that I will give you for the sons of Israel.

  • Bread of the Presence

  • 23 “You shall also make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.
  • 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.
  • 25 And you shall make for it a rim of a hand width around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.
  • 26 You shall also make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four legs.
  • 27 The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table.
  • 28 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.
  • 29 You shall also make its dishes, its pans, its jars, and its libation bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.
  • 30 And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me continually.

  • The Golden Lampstand

  • 31 “Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base and its shaft, are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its bulbs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
  • 32 Six branches shall go out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side.
  • 33 Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the other branch, a bulb and a flower—the same for six branches going out from the lampstand;
  • 34 and on the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.
  • 35 A bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.
  • 36 Their bulbs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold.
  • 37 Then you shall make its lamps seven in number; and they shall mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it.
  • 38 Its tongs and its trays shall be of pure gold.
  • 39 It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.
  • 40 See that you make them by the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain.