Exodus 25:1-40 NASB

[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. [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. [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. [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.