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25:1  Adonai said to Moshe,
25:2  “Tell the people of Isra’el to take up a collection for me — accept a contribution from anyone who wholeheartedly wants to give.
25:3  The contribution you are to take from them is to consist of gold, silver and bronze;
25:4  blue, purple and scarlet yarn; fine linen, goat’s hair,
25:5  tanned ram skins and fine leather; acacia-wood;
25:6  oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
25:7  onyx stones and other stones to be set, for the ritual vest and breastplate.
25:8  “They are to make me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.
25:9  You are to make it according to everything I show you — the design of the tabernacle and the design of its furnishings. This is how you are to make it.
25:10  “They are to make an ark of acacia-wood three-and-three-quarters feet long, two-and-a-quarter feet wide and two-and-a-quarter feet high.
25:11  You are to overlay it with pure gold — overlay it both inside and outside — and put a molding of gold around the top of it.
25:12  Cast four gold rings for it, and attach them to its four feet, two rings on each side.
25:13  Make poles of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.
25:14  Put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark; you will use them to carry the ark.
25:15  The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they are not to be removed from it.
25:16  Into the ark you are to put the testimony which I am about to give you.
25:17  (ii) “You are to make a cover for the ark out of pure gold; it is to be three-and-three-quarters feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet high.
25:18  You are to make two k’ruvim of gold. Make them of hammered work for the two ends of the ark-cover.
25:19  Make one keruv for one end and one keruv for the other end; make the k’ruvim of one piece with the ark-cover at its two ends.
25:20  The k’ruvim will have their wings spread out above, so that their wings cover the ark, and their faces are toward each other and toward the ark-cover.
25:21  You are to put the ark-cover on top of the ark. “Inside the ark you will put the testimony that I am about to give you.
25:22  There I will meet with you. I will speak with you from above the ark-cover, from between the two k’ruvim which are on the ark for the testimony, about all the orders I am giving you for the people of Isra’el.
25:23  “You are to make a table of acacia-wood three feet long, eighteen inches wide and eighteen inches high.
25:24  Overlay it with pure gold, and put a molding of gold around the top of it.
25:25  Make around it a rim a handbreadth wide, and put a molding of gold around the rim.
25:26  Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners, near its four legs.
25:27  The rings to hold the poles used to carry the table are to be placed close to the rim.
25:28  Make the poles of acacia-wood, overlay them with gold, and use them to carry the table.
25:29  “Make its dishes, pans, bowls and pitchers of pure gold.
25:30  On the table you are to place the bread of the presence in my presence always.
25:31  (S: iii) “You are to make a menorah of pure gold. It is to be made of hammered work; its base, shaft, cups, ring of outer leaves and petals are to be of one piece with it.
25:32  It is to have six branches extending from its sides, three branches of the menorah on one side of it and three on the other.
25:33  On one branch are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a ring of outer leaves and petals; likewise on the opposite branch three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a ring of outer leaves and petals; and similarly for all six branches extending from the menorah.
25:34  On the central shaft of the menorah are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its ring of outer leaves and petals.
25:35  Where each pair of branches joins the central shaft is to be a ring of outer leaves of one piece with the pair of branches — thus for all six branches.
25:36  The rings of outer leaves and their branches are to be of one piece with the shaft. Thus the whole menorah is to be a single piece of hammered work made of pure gold.
25:37  “Make seven lamps for the menorah, and mount them so as to give light to the space in front of it.
25:38  Its tongs and trays are to be of pure gold.
25:39  The menorah and its utensils are to be made of sixty-six pounds of pure gold.
25:40  See that you make them according to the design being shown you on the mountain.