Verse 1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Verse 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering. Verse 3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass, Verse 4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, Verse 5 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, Verse 6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, Verse 7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate. Verse 8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. Verse 9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it. Verse 10 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height. Verse 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it. Verse 12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. Verse 13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. Verse 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. Verse 15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it. Verse 16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark. Verse 17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. Verse 18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. Verse 19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. Verse 20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. Verse 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. Verse 22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel. Verse 23 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height. Verse 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. Verse 25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. Verse 26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. Verse 27 The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table. Verse 28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. Verse 29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold. Verse 30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always. Verse 31 "You shall make a menorah of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the menorah be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it. Verse 32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the menorah out of its one side, and three branches of the menorah out of its other side; Verse 33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the menorah; Verse 34 and in the menorah four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; Verse 35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the menorah. Verse 36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold. Verse 37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it. Verse 38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. Verse 39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. Verse 40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.