Exodus 25

An Offering for the Sanctuary

1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take for me an offering. From everyone whose heart moves him, you will take my offering. 3And this is the offering that you will take from them: gold, silver, and bronze; 4blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goats’ hair; 5ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood; 6oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; 7onyx stones and stones for setting in the ephod and in the breastpiece. 8Let them make me a sanctuary, so that I may dwell in their midst. 9According to all that I show you—the pattern of the dwelling and the pattern of all its furnishings—so you will make it.

The Ark

10“They will make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. 11You will overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside you will overlay it, and you will make a gold molding around it. 12You will cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 13You will make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14You will put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them. 15The poles will remain in the rings of the ark; they will not be removed from it. 16You will put into the ark the testimony that I will give you.

The Cover and the Cherubim

17“You will make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. 18You will make two cherubim of gold. Make them of hammered work at the two ends of the cover. 19Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. Of one piece with the cover you will make the cherubim at its two ends. 20The cherubim will spread out their wings upward, overshadowing the cover with their wings, and their faces will be toward one another; toward the cover will the faces of the cherubim be. 21You will put the cover on top of the ark, and in the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you. 22There I will meet with you, and from above the cover, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you concerning all that I command you for the children of Israel.

The Table

23“You will make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high. 24You will overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. 25You will make a rim around it, a handbreadth wide, and make a gold molding around the rim. 26You will make four rings of gold for it and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs. 27The rings will be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28You will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried with them. 29You will make its plates, dishes, pitchers, and bowls with which drink offerings are poured. You will make them of pure gold. 30You will set the bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.

The Lampstand

31“You will make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand will be made of hammered work—its base and shaft, its cups, buds, and blossoms will be of one piece with it. 32Six branches will come out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side. 33Three cups shaped like almond blossoms, with bud and blossom, will be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, with bud and blossom, on the next branch; so for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. 34On the lampstand itself will be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with its buds and blossoms. 35A bud will be under the first pair of branches coming from it, a bud under the second pair of branches coming from it, and a bud under the third pair of branches coming from it, for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. 36Their buds and branches will be of one piece with it, all of it one hammered work of pure gold. 37You will make its seven lamps, and its lamps will be set up so that they give light in front of it. 38Its tongs and firepans will be of pure gold. 39It will be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils. 40See that you make them according to their pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.