25:2 “Speak to the people of Israel so that they gather a special offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall gather the offering for me.”
25:3 This is the offering which you are to gather from them: gold, silver, and bronze;
25:4 blue, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen; goats’ hair,
25:5 rams’ skins dyed red, and hides of sea cows; acacia wood,
25:6 olive oil for the Light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
25:7 onyx stones, and stones to be mounted on the special vest and on the pouch.
25:8 They are to make a sanctuary for me, so that I may dwell among them.
25:9 You are to make it exactly according to the design for the Dwelling and the designs for all of its furniture which I will show you.
25:10 They shall make an ark of acacia wood. It is to be forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.
25:11 Overlay it with pure gold. Overlay it on the inside and the outside, and make a gold border around it.
25:12 Cast four gold rings for it and place them next to its four feet. Two rings are for one side of it, and two rings for the other side.
25:13 Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
25:14 Put the poles which are used to carry the ark into the rings on the sides of the ark.
25:15 The poles are to be placed into the rings on the ark. They are not to be removed from the rings.
25:16 Put the Testimony, which I am about to give to you, into the ark.
25:17 Make an atonement seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.
25:18 Make two cherubim of hammered gold. You are to make them for the two ends of the atonement seat.
25:19 Make one cherub for one end and one cherub for the other end. The cherubim on its two ends are to form one piece with the atonement seat.
25:20 The cherubim will spread their wings upward so that they cover the atonement seat with their wings, and they will face each other. The faces of the cherubim are to be looking inward toward the atonement seat.
25:21 Put the atonement seat on top of the ark, and put the Testimony, which I will give to you, into the ark.
25:22 There I will meet with you, and from above the atonement seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the Ark of the Testimony, I will communicate to you all the commands that I will give to you for the people of Israel.
25:23 You shall make a table of acacia wood, thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.
25:24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.
25:25 Make a three-inch rim around it. Make a gold border for its rim all the way around it.
25:26 Make four gold rings for it and fasten the rings to the four corners, above the four legs of the table.
25:27 The rings shall be close to the border to hold the poles used to carry the table.
25:28 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table can be carried with them.
25:29 You are to make its dishes, its small bowls, its pitchers, and its larger bowls to pour out offerings. Make them of pure gold.
25:30 You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table so that it is in front of me at all times.
25:31 You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal. Its pedestal, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers are all to be formed as one piece with the lampstand.
25:32 There are to be six branches going out from its two sides: Three branches of the lampstand are to go out from one side, and three branches of the lampstand are to go out from the other side.
25:33 There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and flowers on the first branch, and three cups like almond blossoms with buds and flowers on the branch opposite it. All six branches going out from the lampstand are to be the same.
25:34 On the lampstand itself make four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and flowers.
25:35 The bud under one pair of branches is to form one piece with the lampstand, and the bud under the second pair of branches is to form one piece with the lampstand, and the bud under the third pair of branches is to form one piece with the lampstand—the same for all six branches going out of the lampstand.
25:36 Its buds and branches are to be made as one piece with it. All of it will be one hammered piece of pure gold.
25:37 You shall make seven lamps for it, and these lamps shall be lit to give light to the area in front of the lampstand.
25:38 Its wick trimmers and its pans are to be made of pure gold.
25:39 It is to be made of seventy-five pounds of pure gold with all these accessories.
25:40 See to it that you make them according to their design, which is being shown to you on the mountain.
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