Exodus 37

Bezalel Makes the Ark and the Atonement Cover

1Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood: two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. 2He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and made a gold molding around it. 3He cast four gold rings for it, to be set on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other. 4He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. 5He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark. 6He made an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. 7He made two cherubim of hammered gold, at the two ends of the atonement cover — 8one cherub at one end and the other cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the atonement cover, at its two ends. 9The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the atonement cover with their wings, facing each other; the faces of the cherubim were turned toward the atonement cover.

The Table and the Lampstand

10He made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high. 11He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding around it. 12He made a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and made a gold molding for the rim, all around. 13He cast four gold rings for it and set the rings on the four corners at its four legs. 14The rings were close to the rim, as places for the poles to carry the table. 15He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. 16He made the utensils that were on the table — its plates and dishes, its bowls, and its pitchers for pouring out drink offerings — of pure gold. 17He made the lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work he made the lampstand, its base and shaft; its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were of one piece with it. 18Six branches extended from its sides — three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches from the other. 19Three cups shaped like almond blossoms were on the one branch, with a bud and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the next branch, with a bud and a flower — so for all six branches extending from the lampstand. 20On the lampstand itself there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with their buds and their blossoms. 21There was a bud under each of the three pairs of branches extending from it, for the six branches that extended from it. 22Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it — the whole of it a single piece of hammered pure gold. 23He made its seven lamps, and its wick trimmers and its trays, of pure gold. 24He made it, and all its utensils, from a talent of pure gold.

The Altar of Incense and the Anointing Oil

25He made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit long and a cubit wide — square — and two cubits high; its horns were of one piece with it. 26He overlaid it with pure gold — its top, its sides all around, and its horns — and made a gold molding around it. 27He made two gold rings for it below the molding, on its two sides, on its two corners, as places for the poles to carry it. 28He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. 29He made the holy anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.