1 A nd the Lord said to Moses,

2 S peak 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.

3 T his is the offering you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

4 B lue, purple, and scarlet and fine twined linen and goats’ hair,

5 R ams’ skins tanned red, goatskins, dolphin or porpoise skins, acacia wood,

6 O il for the light, spices for anointing oil and for sweet incense,

7 O nyx stones, and stones for setting in the ephod and in the breastplate.

8 L et them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

9 A nd 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.

10 T hey 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.

11 Y ou shall overlay the ark with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold crown, a rim or border, around its top.

12 Y ou shall cast four gold rings and attach them to the four lower corners of it, two rings on either side.

13 Y ou shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold,

14 A nd put the poles through the rings on the ark’s sides, by which to carry it.

15 T he poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.

16 A nd you shall put inside the ark the Testimony which I will give you.

17 A nd you shall make a mercy seat (a covering) of pure gold, two cubits and a half long and a cubit and a half wide.

18 A nd you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat.

19 M ake one cherub on each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat, on the two ends of it.

20 A nd 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.

21 Y ou shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.

22 T here 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.

23 A lso, make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

24 Y ou shall overlay it with pure gold and make a crown, a rim or molding, of gold around the top of it;

25 A nd make a frame of a handbreadth around and below the top of it and put around it a gold molding as a border.

26 Y ou shall make for it four rings of gold and fasten them at the four corners that are on the table’s four legs.

27 C lose against the frame shall the rings be as places for the poles to pass to carry the table.

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

29 A nd you shall make its plates and cups, and its flagons and bowls; make them of pure gold.

30 A nd you shall set the showbread (the bread of the Presence) on the table before Me always.

31 Y ou 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.

32 S ix 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;

33 T hree 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;

34 A nd on the itself you shall four cups like almond blossoms with their knobs and their flowers.

35 A lso make a knob under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand and one piece with it;

36 T heir knobs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.

37 A nd you shall make the lamps of the to include a seventh one. shall set up the lamps of it so they may give light in front of it.

38 I ts snuffers and its ashtrays shall be of pure gold.

39 U se a talent of pure gold for it, including all these utensils.

40 A nd see to it that you copy their pattern which was shown you on the mountain.