Exodus 25:1-40 CEB

[1] The LORD said to Moses: [2] Tell the Israelites to collect gift offerings for me. Receive my gift offerings from everyone who freely wants to give. [3] These are the gift offerings that you should receive from them: gold, silver, and copper; [4] blue, purple, and deep red yarns; fine linen; goats’ hair; [5] rams’ skins dyed red; beaded leather; acacia wood; [6] oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense; [7] gemstones; and gems for setting in the priest’s vest and chest piece. [8] They should make me a sanctuary so I can be present among them. [9] You should follow the blueprints that I will show you for the dwelling and for all its equipment. [10] Have them make an acacia-wood chest. It should be forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. [11] Cover it with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold molding all around it. [12] Cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other. [13] Make acacia-wood poles and cover them with gold. [14] Then put the poles into the rings on the chest’s sides and use them to carry the chest. [15] The poles should stay in the chest’s rings. They shouldn’t be taken out of them. [16] Put the covenant document that I will give you into the chest. [17] Then make a cover of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide. [18] Make two winged heavenly creatures of hammered gold, one for each end of the cover. [19] Put one winged heavenly creature at one end and one winged heavenly creature at the other. Place the winged heavenly creatures at the cover’s two ends. [20] The heavenly creatures should have their wings spread out above, shielding the cover with their wings. The winged heavenly creatures should face each other toward the cover’s center. [21] Put the gold cover on top of the chest and put the covenant document that I will give you inside the chest. [22] There I will meet with you. From there above the cover, from between the two winged heavenly creatures that are on top of the chest containing the covenant, I will deliver to you all that I command you concerning the Israelites. [23] Make an acacia-wood table, three feet long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. [24] Cover it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it. [25] Make a frame around it that is four inches wide and a gold molding around the frame. [26] Make four gold rings for the table. Fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. [27] The rings that house the poles used for carrying the table should be close to the frame. [28] Make the poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold. The table should be carried with these poles. [29] Make its plates, dishes, jars, and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them of pure gold. [30] Set the bread of the presence on the table so it is always in front of me. [31] Make a lampstand of pure hammered gold. The lampstand’s base, branches, cups, flowers, and petals should all be attached to it. [32] It should have six branches growing out from its sides, three branches on one side of the lampstand and three branches on the other side of the lampstand. [33] One branch will have three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a flower and petals, and the next branch will also have three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a flower and petals. So it will be for the six branches that grow out of the lampstand. [34] In addition, on the lampstand itself there will be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its flower and petals. [35] There will be a flower attached under the first pair of branches, a flower attached under the next pair of branches, and a flower attached under the last pair of branches. So it will be for the six branches that grow out of the lampstand. [36] Their flowers and their branches will be permanently attached to it. The whole lampstand should be one piece of pure hammered gold. [37] Make its seven lamps and set up its lamps so that they direct their light in front of the lampstand. [38] You should also make its tongs and fire pans out of pure gold. [39] All these items should be made from pure gold weighing one kikkar. [40] See to it that you make them according to the blueprint for them that you were shown on the mountain.