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¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,² Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take an offering for Me. From every man whose heart impels him, let them take My offering.³ And this is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, and silver, and bronze;⁴ and blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and goats hair;⁵ and rams' skin dyed red, and dugong skins, and acacia wood;⁶ oil for the light, spices for the oil of anointing, and for the incense of perfumes;⁷ onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod, and for the breast pocket.⁸ And let them make a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell in their midst.⁹ According to all which I am going to reveal to you, the plan of the tabernacle, and the plan of all its vessels, even so you shall do.

¹⁰ And they shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.¹¹ And you shall overlay it with pure gold; you shall overlay it inside and outside. And you shall make a wreath of gold all around on it.¹² And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and shall put it on its four feet; two rings on the one side, and two rings on the second side.¹³ And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and you shall overlay them with gold.¹⁴ And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by them.¹⁵ The poles shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not depart from it.¹⁶ And you shall put the testimony into the ark, which I shall give to you.¹⁷ And you shall make a mercyseat of pure gold, its length two and a half cubits, and its width a cubit and a half.¹⁸ And you shall make two cherubs of gold; you shall make them of beaten work from the two ends of the mercyseat.¹⁹ And make one cherub from the end here, and one cherub from the end there. You shall make the cherubs from the mercyseat, on its two ends.²⁰ And the cherubs shall be spreading out wings above, covering the mercyseat with their wings, and their faces each toward its brother; the faces of the cherubs shall be toward the mercyseat.²¹ And you shall put the mercyseat on the ark from above. And you shall put the testimony into the ark, which I shall give to you.²² And I will meet you there, and will speak with you, above the mercyseat, from between the two cherubs which are on the ark of testimony, all which I shall command you concerning the sons of Israel.

²³ And you shall make a table of acacia wood, its length two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height a cubit and a half.²⁴ And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and you shall make on it a wreath of gold all around.²⁵ And you shall make a border of a hand's breadth for it all around. And you shall make a wreath of gold all around on its border.²⁶ And you shall make four rings of gold for it, and you shall put the rings on the four corners which are to its four feet.²⁷ The rings shall be near the border for housings for the poles to carry the table.²⁸ And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and you shall overlay them with gold. And the table shall be carried by them.²⁹ And you shall make its platters, and its bowls, and its pitchers, and its sacrificial cups with which to pour a drink offering . You shall make them of pure gold.³⁰ And you shall put the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me continually.

³¹ And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of beaten work; its base and its shaft, its calyxes, its knobs, and its blossoms shall be from it.³² And six branches shall go out from its sides, three branches of the lamp from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side;³³ three almond like calyxes on the one branch with knob and blossom; and three almond like calyxes on the one branch with knob and blossom, so for the six branches, those going out from the lampstand.³⁴ And on the lampstand shall be four almond like calyxes, each with its knobs and its blossoms;³⁵ and a knob under two branches of it; and a knob under two branches of it; and a knob under two branches of it, to the six branches, those going from the lampstand.³⁶ Their knobs and their branches shall be of it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.³⁷ And you shall make its seven lamps, and one shall set up its lamps, and they shall give light on its face.³⁸ And its tongs, and its pans shall be of pure gold.³⁹ One shall make it of a talent of pure gold, with all these vessels.⁴⁰ And see that they are made by their patterns which you were caused to see in the mountain.