The offering for the sanctuary
1Yahweh said to Moses, 2“Tell the Israelites to take up an offering for me. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart moves him to give. 3This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze; 4blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair; 5ram skins dyed red, fine leather, and acacia wood; 6oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; 7onyx stones and other gems to be set in the ephod and the breastpiece. 8Let them make me a sanctuary, so that I may dwell among them. 9Make it exactly like the pattern I show you for the tabernacle and all its furnishings.
The ark of the covenant
10Have them 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. 11Overlay it with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. 12Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other. 13Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, 14and insert them into the rings on the sides of the ark, so it can be carried. 15The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed. 16Put into the ark the testimony that I will give you. 17Make an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. 18Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the two ends of the cover. 19Make one cherub at one end and the other at the other end; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at its two ends. 20The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, covering the cover with their wings, facing each other, looking down toward the cover. 21Put the cover on top of the ark, and put into the ark the testimony that I will give you. 22There I will meet with you, and from above the cover, from between the two cherubim on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about everything I command you concerning the Israelites.
The table and the lampstand
23Make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high. 24Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. 25Make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and put a gold molding on the rim. 26Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are. 27The rings are to be close to the rim, to hold the poles for carrying the table. 28Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold, and carry the table by them. 29Make its plates and dishes, its pitchers and bowls for pouring out drink offerings; make them of pure gold. 30Put the bread of the presence on the table before me at all times. 31Make a lampstand of pure gold. Its base and shaft, its cups, buds, and blossoms, are to be of one piece with it, of hammered work. 32Six branches are to extend from its sides — three on one side and three on the other. 33Each branch is to have three cups shaped like almond blossoms, with a bud and a flower — for all six branches extending from the lampstand. 34And on the lampstand itself there are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with their buds and flowers. 35A bud is to be under each of the three pairs of branches extending from the lampstand — six branches in all. 36The buds and branches are to be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold. 37Make its seven lamps and set them up so that they light the space in front of it. 38Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold. 39A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these utensils. 40See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
