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, |
25:4 Blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen and goats' hair, |
25:5 Rams' skins tanned red, goatskins, dolphin {or} porpoise skins, acacia wood, |
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, |
25:14 And put the poles through the rings on the ark's sides, by which to carry it. |
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. |
25:26 You shall make for it four rings of gold and fasten them at the four corners that are on the table's four legs. |
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. |