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¹ And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,² "Speak to the sons of Israel, and they take a raised-offering for Me; you take My raised-offering from every man whose heart impels him.³ And this [is] the raised-offering which you take from them: gold, and silver, and bronze,⁴ and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair],⁵ and rams' skins made red, and tachashim skins, and shittim wood,⁶ oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of the spices,⁷ shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.⁸ And they have made a sanctuary for Me, and I have dwelt in their midst;⁹ according to all that which I am showing you, the pattern of the Dwelling Place, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so you make [it].

¹⁰ And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;¹¹ and you have overlaid it [with] pure gold, you overlay it inside and outside, and you have made a ring of gold on it all around.¹² And you have cast four rings of gold for it, and have put [them] on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side;¹³ and you have made poles of shittim wood, and have overlaid them [with] gold,¹⁴ and have brought the poles into the rings on the sides of the Ark, to carry the Ark by them;¹⁵ the poles are in the rings of the Ark, they are not turned aside from it;¹⁶ and you have put the Testimony which I give to you into the Ark.¹⁷ And you have made a propitiatory covering of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;¹⁸ and you have made two cherubim of gold; you make them beaten work at the two ends of the propitiatory covering;¹⁹ and make one cherub at the end on this [side] and one cherub at the end on that [side]; at the propitiatory covering you make the cherubim on its two ends.²⁰ And the cherubim have been spreading out wings on high, covering over the propitiatory covering with their wings, and their faces [are] toward one another—the faces of the cherubim are toward the propitiatory covering.²¹ And you have put the propitiatory covering on the Ark above, and you put the Testimony which I give to you into the Ark;²² and I have met with you there, and have spoken with you from off the propitiatory covering (from between the two cherubim, which [are] on the Ark of the Testimony) all that which I command you concerning the sons of Israel.

²³ And you have made a table of shittim wood, two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height,²⁴ and have overlaid it [with] pure gold, and have made a crown of gold for it all around,²⁵ and have made a border of a handbreadth for it all around, and have made a crown of gold for its border all around.²⁶ And you have made four rings of gold for it, and have put the rings on the four corners, which [are] at its four feet;²⁷ close by the border are the rings for places for poles to carry the table;²⁸ and you have made the poles of shittim wood, and have overlaid them with gold, and the table has been carried with them;²⁹ and you have made its dishes, and its bowls, and its covers, and its cups, with which they pour out; you make them of pure gold;³⁰ and you have put Bread of the Presentation on the table before Me continually.

³¹ And you have made a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand is made of beaten work; its base, and its branch, its calyxes, its knobs, and its flowers are of the same;³² and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of the first side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the second side;³³ three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knob and a flower, and three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knob and a flower—so for the six branches which are coming out from the lampstand.³⁴ And in the lampstand [are] four calyxes made like almonds, its knobs and its flowers;³⁵ and a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, for the six branches which are coming out of the lampstand;³⁶ their knobs and their branches are of the same, all of it one beaten work of pure gold;³⁷ and you have made its seven lamps, and [one] has caused its lamps to go up, and it has given light over [and] beyond its front.³⁸ And its snuffers and its snuff dishes [are] of pure gold;³⁹ he makes it of a talent of pure gold, with all these vessels.⁴⁰ Now see and make [them] by their pattern which you are shown on the mountain."