Exodus 25

1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they take for Me a heave-offering; from every man whose heart impelleth him ye do take My heave-offering.

“Speak to the sons of Israel, so that they may take the first-fruits to me. You shall accept these from every man who offers of his own accord.

3 'And this [is] the heave-offering which ye take from them; gold, and silver, and brass,

Now these are the things that you must accept: Gold, and silver, and brass,

4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair],

hyacinth and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine linen, the hair of goats,

5 and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

and the skins of rams, dyed red, and skins of violet, and setim wood,

6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,

oil to prepare lights, aromatics as ointments and sweet-smelling incense,

7 shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.

onyx stones and gems to adorn the ephod as well as the breastplate.

8 'And they have made for Me a sanctuary, and I have tabernacled in their midst;

And they shall make a sanctuary for me, and I will live in their midst.

9 according to all that which I am shewing thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so ye do make [it].

According to exact likeness of the tabernacle, and all of the vessels for its rituals, that I will reveal to you, so shall you make it.

10 'And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;

Join together an ark of setim wood, whose length shall hold two and one half cubits; the width, one and one half cubits; the height, likewise, one and one half cubits.

11 and thou hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, within and without thou dost overlay it, and thou hast made on it a ring of gold round about.

And you shall overlay it with the finest gold, inside and out. And over it, you shall fashion a gold crown all around,

12 'And thou hast cast for it four rings of gold, and hast put [them] on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side;

and four gold rings, which you shall set into the four corners of the ark. Let two rings be on one side and two on the other.

13 and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them [with] gold,

Likewise, you shall make bars of setim wood and cover them with gold.

14 and hast brought the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark by them,

And you shall put them through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, so that it may be carried on them.

15 in the rings of the ark are the staves, they are not turned aside from it;

These must always be in the rings, neither shall they ever be drawn out of them.

16 and thou hast put unto the ark the testimony which I give unto thee.

And you shall place the testimony, which I will give to you, in the ark.

17 'And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

You shall also make a propitiatory of the finest gold. Its length shall hold two and one half cubits, and the width, one and one half cubits.

18 and thou hast made two cherubs of gold, beaten work dost thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;

Likewise, you shall make two Cherubim of formed gold, on both sides of the oracle.

19 and make thou one cherub at the end on this side, and one cherub at the end on that; at the mercy-seat ye do make the cherubs on its two ends.

Let one Cherub be on the one side, and the other be on the other.

20 'And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces [are] one towards another — towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs.

And let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings and covering the oracle, and let them look out toward one another, their faces being turned toward the propitiatory, with which the ark is to be covered,

21 'And thou hast put the mercy-seat on the ark above, and unto the ark thou dost put the testimony which I give unto thee;

in which you will place the testimony that I will give to you.

22 and I have met with thee there, and have spoken with thee from off the mercy-seat (from between the two cherubs, which [are] on the ark of the testimony) all that which I command thee concerning the sons of Israel.

From there, I will warn you and speak to you, above the propitiatory and from the middle of the two Cherubim, which will be over the ark of the testimony, about everything that I will command of the sons of Israel through you.

23 'And thou hast made a table of shittim wood, two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height,

You shall also make a table of setim wood, having two cubits of length, and one cubit in width, and one cubit and one half cubits in height.

24 and hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, and hast made for it a crown of gold round about,

And you shall overlay it with the purest gold. And you shall make it with a gold lip all around,

25 and hast made for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and hast made a crown of gold to its border round about.

and for the lip itself an engraved crown, four fingers high, and above it another little gold crown.

26 'And thou hast made to it four rings of gold, and hast put the rings on the four corners, which [are] to its four feet;

Likewise, you shall prepare four gold rings and set them in the four corners of the same table, over each foot.

27 over-against the border are the rings for places for staves to bear the table;

Under the crown, there shall be gold rings, so that the bars may be put through them and the table may be carried.

28 and thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold, and the table hath been borne with them;

Likewise, the bars themselves you shall make of setim wood, and surround them with gold, to lift up the table.

29 and thou hast made its dishes, and its bowls, and its covers, and its cups, with which they pour out; of pure gold thou dost make them;

You shall also prepare small cups, as well as bowls, censers, and measuring cups, with which the libations shall be offered, out of the purest gold.

30 and thou hast put on the table bread of the presence before Me continually.

And you shall place upon the table the bread of the presence, in my sight always.

31 'And thou hast made a candlestick of pure gold, of beaten work is the candlestick made; its base, and its branch, its calyxes, its knops, and its flowers are of the same;

You shall also make a lampstand, formed from the finest gold, along with its stem and arms, its bowl and little spheres, as well as the lilies proceeding from it.

32 and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the second side;

Six branches shall go out from the sides: three out of one side and three out of the other.

33 three calyxes made like almonds in the one branch, a knop and a flower, and three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; so for the six branches which are coming out from the candlestick.

Three bowls, the size of nuts, shall be on each branch, and a little sphere with it, and a lily. And three similar bowls, in the likeness of nuts, shall be on the other branch, and a little sphere with it, and a lily. This shall be the form of the six branches, which are to proceed from the stem.

34 'And in the candlestick [are] four calyxes made like almonds, its knops and its flowers;

Then, in the lampstand itself, there shall be four bowls, the size of nuts, and each with little spheres and lilies.

35 and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, [are] to the six branches which are coming out of the candlestick;

Little spheres under two branches in three places, which together make six, shall proceed from one of the stems.

36 their knops and their branches are of the same, all of it one beaten work of pure gold;

Thus both the little spheres and the branches shall be made out of the same thing: entirely formed from the purest gold.

37 and thou hast made its seven lamps, and [one] hath caused its lights to go up, and it hath given light over-against its front.

You shall also make seven lamps, and you shall place them upon the lampstand, so that they may give light in every direction.

38 'And its snuffers and its snuff dishes [are] of pure gold;

Likewise, the candle snuffers, and the place where the candles will be extinguished, shall be made from the purest gold.

39 of a talent of pure gold he doth make it, with all these vessels.

The entire weight of the candlestick, with all its parts, shall hold one talent of the purest gold.

40 And see thou and do [them] by their pattern which thou art shewn in the mount.

Observe, and then make it according to the example that was shown to you on the mountain.”