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¹ And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying:² Speak unto the sons of Israel, that they take for me a heave-offering, - of every man whose heart urgeth him, shall ye take my heave-offering.³ And, this is the heave-offering which ye shall take of them, - gold and silver and bronze;⁴ and blue, and purple, and crimson and fine linen, and goats hair;⁵ and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins and acacia wood;⁶ oil for giving light, - perfumes for the anointing oil, and for fragrant incense;⁷ onyx stones, and setting stones, - for the ephod and for the breastpiece:⁸ So shall they make for me a sanctuary, - and I will make my habitation in their midst:⁹ according to all that, I, am shewing thee, the pattern of the habitation, and the pattern of all the furnishings thereof, even so, shall ye make it.

¹⁰ And they shall make an ark of acacia wood,-two cubits and a half, the length thereof and, a cubit and a half, the breadth thereof, and, a cubit and a half, the height thereof.¹¹ And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without, shalt thou overlay it, - and thou shalt make thereon a rim of gold, round about.¹² And thou shalt cast for it four rings of gold, and shalt put them on the four feet thereof, - even two rings on the one side thereof, and two rings on the other side thereof.¹³ And thou shalt make staves, of acacia wood, - and shalt overlay them with gold.¹⁴ And thou shalt bring in the staves into the rings, on the sides of the ark, - to bear the ark therewith,¹⁵ In the rings of the ark, shall remain the staves, - they shall not be removed therefrom.¹⁶ And thou shalt put into the ark, - the testimony which I will give unto thee.¹⁷ And thou shalt make a propitiatory, of pure gold, - two cubits and a half, the length thereof, and, a cubit and a half, the breadth thereof,¹⁸ And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, - of beaten work, shalt thou make them, out of the two ends of the propitiatory.¹⁹ And make thou one cherub out of this end, and the other cherub out of that end, - out of the propitiatory, shall ye make the cherubim upon the two ends thereof.²⁰ And the cherubim shall be spreading out two wings on high - making a shelter with their wings over the propitiatory, with their faces one towards the other, - towards the propitiatory, shall be the faces of the cherubim. ²¹ And thou shalt put the propitiatory upon the ark above, - and in the ark, shalt thou put the testimony, which I will give unto thee.²² And I will meet with thee there, and will speak with thee from off the propitiatory, from between the two cherubim, which are upon the ark of the testimony, - whatsoever I may give thee in charge, for toe sons of Israel.

²³ And thou shalt make a table, of acacia wood, two cubits, the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.²⁴ and thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, - and shalt make thereto a rim of gold, round about;²⁵ and thou shalt make thereto a border of a handbreadth, round about, - and shalt make a rim of gold to the border thereof, round about;²⁶ and thou shalt make to it four rings of gold, - and shalt place the rings on the four corners which pertain to the four feet thereof:²⁷ adjoining the border, shall be the rings, - as receptacles for the staves, for lifting the table;²⁸ and thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, - and the table shall be lifted there, with;²⁹ and thou shalt make its dishes and its pans and its basins and its bowls, for pouring out therewith, - of pure gold, shalt thou make them.³⁰ And thou shalt place upon the table Presence-bread, before me continually.

³¹ And thou shalt make a lampstand of pure gold, of beaten work, shall the lampstand be made, even its base and its shaft its cups, its apples, and its blossoms of the same, shall be:³² with, six branches, coming out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand, out the one side thereof, and three branches of the lampstand, out of the other side thereof:³³ three cups like almond-flowers, in the one branch apple and blossom, and thine cups like almond-flowers in the other branch apple and blossom, so, for the six branches, coming out of the lampstand.³⁴ And in the lampstand itself, four cups, - like almond-flowers - its apples, and its blossoms;³⁵ and an apple under two branches of the same, and, another apple, under two other branches of the same, and another apple under two other branches, of the same, - for the six branches, coming out of the lampstand:³⁶ their apples and their branches, of the same, shall be, - all of it, of one beaten work, of pure gold.³⁷ And thou shalt make the lamps thereof seven, and one shall light up its lamps, and it shall give light, over against the face thereof.³⁸ And, its snuffers, and its snuff-trays of pure gold.³⁹ With a talent of pure gold, shall he make it, with all these vessels,⁴⁰ And see thou and make them, by the pattern of them, which thou wast caused to behold in the mount