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Offerings to Build the Tabernacle

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses: ² “Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give.^{(C1) 3} This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze; ⁴ blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair; ⁵ ram skins dyed red^(C1) and fine leather;^(F1) acacia wood; ⁶ oil^(C1) for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; ⁷ and onyx^(F1) along with other gemstones for mounting on the ephod and breastpiece.^(F2)(C1)

⁸ “They are to make a sanctuary^(C1) for me so that I may dwell^(C2) among them. ⁹ You must make it according to all that I show you—the pattern^(C1) of the tabernacle as well as the pattern of all its furnishings.

The Ark

¹⁰ “They are to make an ark^(C1) of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.^{(F1) 11} Overlay it with pure gold; overlay it both inside and out. Also make a gold molding all around it. ¹² Cast four gold rings for it and place them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. ¹³ Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴ Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. ¹⁵ The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it. ¹⁶ Put the tablets of^(F1) the testimony that I will give you into the ark.^{(C1) 17} Make a mercy seat^(C1) of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.^{(F1) 18} Make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat. ¹⁹ Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At its two ends, make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat. ²⁰ The cherubim are to have wings spread out above, covering^(C1) the mercy seat with their wings, and are to face one another. The faces of the cherubim should be toward the mercy seat. ²¹ Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the tablets of the testimony that I will give you into the ark.^{(C1) 22} I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim^(C1) that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.

The Table

²³ “You are to construct a table^(C1) of acacia wood, thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.^{(F1) 24} Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it. ²⁵ Make a three-inch^(F1) frame all around it and make a gold molding for it all around its frame. ²⁶ Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners at its four legs. ²⁷ The rings should be next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table. ²⁸ Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table can be carried by them. ²⁹ You are also to make its plates^(C1) and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold. ³⁰ Put the Bread of the Presence^(C1) on the table before me at all times.

The Lampstand

³¹ “You^(C1) are to make a lampstand^(C2) out of pure, hammered gold. It is to be made of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its buds^(F1) and petals. ³² Six branches are to extend from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side. ³³ There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on the next branch. It is to be this way for the six branches that extend from the lampstand. ³⁴ There are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms on the lampstand shaft along with its buds and petals. ³⁵ For the six branches that extend from the lampstand, a bud must be under the first pair of branches from it, a bud under the second pair of branches from it, and a bud under the third pair of branches from it. ³⁶ Their buds and branches are to be of one piece.^(F1) All of it is to be a single hammered piece of pure gold.

³⁷ “Make its seven lamps,^(C1) and set them up so that they illuminate the area in front of it. ³⁸ Its snuffers and firepans must be of pure gold. ³⁹ The lampstand^(F1) with all these utensils is to be made from seventy-five pounds^(F2) of pure gold. ⁴⁰ Be careful to make them according to the pattern^(C1) you have been shown on the mountain.