1The LORD said to Moses,2‘Tell the people of Israel to bring me an offering. You must receive the offering for me from everyone whose hearts move them to give.3‘Here are the offerings you must receive from them. ‘gold, silver and bronze4blue, purple and bright red yarn and fine linen goat hair5ram skins that are dyed red another kind of strong leather acacia wood6olive oil for the lights spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense7onyx stones and other jewels for the linen apron and chest cloth8‘Let them make a sacred tent for me. I will live among them.9Make the holy tent and everything that belongs to it. Make them exactly like the pattern I will show you.
The ark of the covenant law
10‘Let them make an ark out of acacia wood. It must be a chest 1.25 metres long and 75 centimetres wide and high.11Cover it inside and outside with pure gold. Put a strip of gold around it.12Make four gold rings for it. Join them to its four bottom corners. Put two rings on one side and two rings on the other.13Then make poles out of acacia wood. Cover them with gold.14Put the poles through the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.15The poles must remain in the rings of the ark. Do not remove them.16I will give you the tablets of the covenant law. When I do, put them into the ark.17‘Make its cover out of pure gold. The cover is the place where sin will be paid for. Make it 1.25 metres long and 75 centimetres wide.18Make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.19Put one of the cherubim on each end of it. Make the cherubim part of the cover itself.20They must have their wings spread up over the cover. The cherubim must face each other and look towards the cover.21Place the cover on top of the ark. I will give you the tablets of the covenant law. Put them in the ark.22The ark is where the tablets of the covenant law are kept. I will meet with you above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark. There I will give you all my commands for the Israelites.
The table for the holy bread
23‘Make a table out of acacia wood. Make it 1 metre long, half a metre wide and 75 centimetres high.24Cover it with pure gold. Put a strip of gold around it.25Also make a rim around it 8 centimetres wide. Put a strip of gold around the rim.26Make four gold rings for the table. Join them to the four corners, where the four legs are.27The rings must be close to the rim. They must hold the poles that will be used to carry the table.28Make the poles out of acacia wood. Cover them with gold. Use them to carry the table.29Make its plates and dishes out of pure gold. Also make its pitchers and bowls out of pure gold. Use the pitchers and bowls to pour out drink offerings.30Put the holy bread on the table. It must be near my holy throne on the ark of the covenant law at all times.
The gold lampstand
31‘Make a lampstand out of pure gold. Hammer out its base and stem. Its buds, blossoms and cups must branch out from it. They must be part of the lampstand itself.32Six branches must come out from the sides of the lampstand. Make three on one side and three on the other.33On one branch make three cups that are shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms. Then put three on the next branch. Do the same with all six branches that come out from the lampstand.34On the lampstand there must be four cups that are shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.35One bud must be under the first pair of branches that come out from the lampstand. Put a second bud under the second pair. And put a third bud under the third pair. Make a total of six branches.36The buds and branches must come out from the lampstand. The whole lampstand must be one piece hammered out of pure gold.37‘Then make its seven lamps. Set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.38The trays and wick cutters must be made out of pure gold.39Use 36 kilograms of pure gold to make the lampstand and everything used with it.40Be sure to make everything just like the pattern I showed you on the mountain.
1The Lord said to Moses,2“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. (Ex 35:4; Ex 35:5; Ex 35:21; Ex 35:29; Ex 36:2; Jud 5:2; 1Ch 29:5; Ezr 1:6; Ezr 2:68; Ezr 3:5; Ezr 7:16; Ne 11:2; 2Co 8:12; 2Co 9:7)3And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,4blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, (Ex 26:1; Ex 26:31; Ex 26:36)5tanned rams’ skins, goatskins,[1] acacia wood, (Ex 26:14)6oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, (Ex 27:20; Ex 30:7; Ex 30:23; Ex 30:34; Ex 31:11)7onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. (Ex 28:4; Ex 28:15)8And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. (Ex 29:45; Ex 36:1; 1Ki 6:13; 2Co 6:16; Heb 9:1; Re 21:3)9Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it. (Ex 25:40; Ex 26:1)
The Ark of the Covenant
10“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits[2] and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. (Ex 37:1; De 10:3; Heb 9:4)11You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it. (Ex 25:24; Ex 30:3; Ex 37:2)12You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. (Ex 37:3)13You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.14And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them.15The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it. (1Ki 8:8)16And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give you. (Ex 16:34; De 31:26; 1Ki 8:9)17“You shall make a mercy seat[3] of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. (Ex 37:6; Heb 9:5)18And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. (Ex 25:31; Ex 37:7; Ex 37:17; Ex 37:22; Nu 8:4; Nu 10:2)19Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. (Ex 37:8)20The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. (1Ki 8:7; 1Ch 28:18; Heb 9:5)21And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.22There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel. (Ex 29:42; Ex 30:6; Ex 30:36; Le 16:2; Nu 7:89; Nu 17:4)
The Table for Bread
23“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. (Ex 37:10; 1Ki 7:48; 2Ch 4:8; Heb 9:2)24You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it. (Ex 25:11)25And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth[4] wide, and a molding of gold around the rim.26And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.27Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table. (Ex 26:29; Ex 30:4; Ex 36:34; Ex 37:14; Ex 37:27; Ex 38:5)28You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.29And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. (Ex 37:16; Nu 4:7)30And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly. (Le 24:5)
The Golden Lampstand
31“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. (Ex 37:17; 1Ki 7:49; Zec 4:2; Heb 9:2; Re 1:12)32And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;33three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.34And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers,35and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand.36Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.37You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it. (Le 24:2; Nu 8:2; 2Ch 13:11)38Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold.39It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent[5] of pure gold.40And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain. (Ex 25:9; Ex 26:30; Ex 27:8; Nu 8:4; 1Ch 28:11; 1Ch 28:19; Ac 7:44; Heb 8:5)