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¹ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,² Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.³ And this [is] the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver and brass,⁴ And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair].⁵ And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood.⁶ Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,⁷ Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breast-plate.⁸ And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.⁹ According to all that I show thee [after] the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its instruments, even so shall ye make [it].

¹⁰ And they shall make an ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and a half [shall be] its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its hight.¹¹ And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold around it.¹² And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put [them] in its four corners; and two rings [shall be] in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.¹³ And thou shalt make staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.¹⁴ And thou shalt put the staffs into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.¹⁵ The staffs shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.¹⁶ And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.¹⁷ And thou shalt make a mercy-seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.¹⁸ And thou shalt make two cherubim [of] gold, [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat.¹⁹ And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: [even] of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim on its two ends.²⁰ And the cherubim shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; towards the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.²¹ And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.²² And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which [are] upon the ark of the testimony, of all [things] which I will give thee in commandment to the children of Israel.

²³ Thou shalt also make a table [of] shittim wood: its length shall be two cubits, and its breadth a cubit, and its hight a cubit and a half.²⁴ And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make to it a crown of gold around it.²⁵ And thou shalt make to it a border of an hand-breadth around it, and thou shalt make a golden crown to its border around it.²⁶ And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that [are] on its four feet.²⁷ Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staffs to bear the table.²⁸ And thou shalt make the staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.²⁹ And thou shalt make its dishes, and its spoons, and its covers, and its bowls, to cover it with: [of] pure gold shalt thou make them.³⁰ And thou shalt set upon the table show-bread before me always.

³¹ And thou shalt make a candlestick [of] pure gold: [of] beaten work shall the candlestick be made: its shaft, and its branches, its bowls, its knobs, and its flowers, shall be of the same.³² And six branches shall extend from the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick from the one side, and three branches of the candlestick from the other side:³³ Three bowls made like to almonds, [with] a knob and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, [with] a knob and a flower: so in the six branches that project from the candlestick.³⁴ And in the candlesticks [shall be] four bowls made like to almonds, [with] their knobs and their flowers.³⁵ And [there shall be] 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, according to the six branches that project from the candlestick.³⁶ Their knobs and their branches shall be of the same: all of it [shall be] one beaten work [of] pure gold.³⁷ And thou shalt make its seven lamps: and they shall light its lamps, that they may give light over against it.³⁸ And its tongs, and its snuff-dishes, [shall be of] pure gold.³⁹ [Of] a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.⁴⁰ And look that thou make [them] after their pattern, which was shown thee on the mount.