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 children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.

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

And these are the things you must take: gold, and silver, and brass,

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

Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

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

And rams’ skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:

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

Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling incense:

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

Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational.

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

And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:

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 all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew thee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall 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;

Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two cubits and a half: the breadth, a cubit and a half: the height, likewise, a cubit and a half.

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 thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold within and without: and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:

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 golden rings, which thou shall put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.

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

Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay 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 thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them.

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

And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any time be drawn out of them.

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

And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.

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;

Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.

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

Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two 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 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.

Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith 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 thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.

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.

Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the propitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be upon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the children of Israel by thee.

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,

Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood, of two cubits in length, and a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and half in height.

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

And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou shalt make to it a golden ledge round about.

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 to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high: and over the same another little golden 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;

Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put 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 shall the golden rings be, 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;

The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold to bear 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;

Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups, wherein the libations are to be offered of the purest gold.

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

And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition 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;

Thou shalt make also a candlestick of beaten work of the finest gold, the shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and the lilies going forth 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 come out of the sides, three out of the 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 cups as it were nuts to every branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily; and three cups, likewise of the fashion of nuts in the other branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the work of the six branches, that are to come out from the shaft:

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

And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the manner of a nut, and at every one, bowls 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;

Bowls under two branches in three places, which together make six coming forth out of one shaft.

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

And both the bowls and the branches shall be of the same beaten work of 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.

Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against.

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

The snuffers also and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.

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

The whole weight of the candlestick with all the furniture thereof shall be a talent of the purest gold.

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

Look and make it according to the pattern, that was shewn thee in the mount.