Exodus 25:1-40 AMPC

[1] And the Lord said to Moses, [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. [3] This is the offering you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, [4] Blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen and goats' hair, [5] Rams' skins tanned red, goatskins, dolphin or porpoise skins, acacia wood, [6] Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil and for sweet incense, [7] Onyx stones, and stones for setting in the ephod and in the breastplate. [8] Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. [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. [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. [11] You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold crown, a rim or border, around its top. [12] You shall cast four gold rings and attach them to the four lower corners of it, two rings on either side. [13] You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, [14] And put the poles through the rings on the ark's sides, by which to carry it. [15] The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it [that the ark be not touched]. [16] And you shall put inside the ark the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] which I will give you. [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. [18] And you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat. [19] Make one cherub on each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat, on the two ends of it. [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. [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. [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. [23] Also, make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high [for the showbread]. [24] You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a crown, a rim or molding, of gold around the top of it; [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. [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. [27] Close against the frame shall the rings be as places for the poles to pass to carry the table [of showbread]. [28] You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. [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. [30] And you shall set the showbread (the bread of the Presence) on the table before Me always. [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. [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; [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; [34] And on the [center shaft] itself you shall [make] four cups like almond blossoms with their knobs and their flowers. [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; [36] Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold. [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. [38] Its snuffers and its ashtrays shall be of pure gold. [39] Use a talent of pure gold for it, including all these utensils. [40] And see to it that you copy [exactly] their pattern which was shown you on the mountain.