1    2   The Lord spoke to Moses and said: Tell the Israelites to set aside a contribution for me; you shall accept whatever contribution each man shall freely offer. 3   This is what you shall accept: gold, silver, copper; 4   violet, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goats' hair; tanned rams' skins, porpoise ^note-hides, and acacia-wood; 5    6   oil for the lamp, balsam for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; 7   cornelian and other stones ready for setting in the ephod and the breast-piece. ^note 8    9   Make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among them. Make it exactly according to the design I show you, the design for the Tabernacle and for all its furniture. This is how you must make it:

10   Make an Ark, a chest of acacia-wood, two and a half cubits long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit and a half high. 11   Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and put a band of gold all round it. 12   Cast four gold rings for it, and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on each side. 13   Make poles of acacia-wood and plate them with gold, and insert the poles in the rings at the sides of the Ark to lift it. 14    15   The poles shall remain in the rings of the Ark and never be removed. 16   Put into the Ark the Tokens of the Covenant, ^note which I shall give you. 17   Make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one cubit and a half wide. 18   Make two gold cherubim of beaten work at the ends of the cover, one at each end; make each cherub of one piece with the cover. 19    20   They shall be made with wings outspread and pointing upwards, and shall screen the cover with their wings. They shall be face to face, looking inwards over the cover. 21   Put the cover above the Ark, and put into the Ark the Tokens that I shall give you. 22   It is there that I shall meet you, and from above the cover, between the two cherubim over the

Israel at Mount Sinai Ark of the Tokens, I shall deliver to you all my commands for the Israelites.

23   Make a table of acacia-wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one cubit and a half high. 24   Overlay it with pure gold, and put a band of gold all round it. 25   Make a rim round it a hand's breadth wide, and a gold band round the rim. 26   Make four gold rings for the table, and put the rings at the four corners by the legs. 27   The rings, which are to receive the poles for carrying the table, must be adjacent to the rim. 28   Make the poles of acacia-wood and plate them with gold; they are to be used for carrying the table. 29   Make its dishes and saucers, and its flagons and bowls from which drink-offerings may be poured: make them of pure gold. 30   Put the Bread of the Presence ^note on the table, to be always before me.

31   Make a lamp-stand of pure gold. The lamp-stand, stem and branches, shall be of beaten work, its cups, both calyxes and petals, shall be of one piece with it. 32   There are to be six branches springing from its sides; three branches of the lamp-stand shall spring from the one side and three branches from the other side. 33   There shall be three cups shaped like almond blossoms, with calyx and petals, on the first branch, three cups shaped like almond blossoms, with calyx and petals, on the next branch, and similarly for all six branches springing from the lamp-stand. 34   On the main stem of the lamp-stand there are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, 35   with calyx and petals, and there shall be calyxes of one piece with it under the six branches which spring from the lamp-stand, a single calyx under each pair of branches. 36   The calyxes and the branches are to be of one piece with it, all a single piece of beaten work of pure gold. 37   Make seven lamps for this and mount them to shed light over the space in front of it. 38   Its tongs and firepans shall be of pure gold. 39   The lamp-stand and all these fittings shall be made from one talent of pure gold. 40   See that you work to the design which you were shown on the mountain.

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