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Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the Israelites to bring an offering to Me. You are to receive My offering from everyone whose heart prompts him to give. 3 These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze; 4 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; 5 ram skins dyed red, fine leather; acacia wood; 6 oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; 7 onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and the breastpiece.
8 “Then have them make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furniture in accordance with the pattern that I will show you.
10 “They are to 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. 11 Overlay it with pure gold; overlay it both inside and outside, and make a gold moulding all around it. 12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on the one side and two rings on the other side. 13 Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark so the ark can be carried with them. 15 The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they are not to be removed. 16 Then place inside the ark the Testimony that I will give you.
17 “Make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide. 18 Make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work for the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end. Make the mercy seat with the cherubim on its two ends in one piece. 20 The cherubim are to have their wings spread out upward, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings. The cherubim are to face one another, with their faces turned toward the mercy seat. 21 Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and place inside the ark the Testimony that I will give you. 22 I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim over the Ark of the Testimony. I will speak to you there and give you all My commands for the Israelites.
23 “You are to make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubic wide, and a cubit and a half high. 24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold moulding all around it. 25 Make a rim around it a handbreadth wide with a gold moulding on the rim. 26 Make four gold rings for it, and fasten the rings to the four corners, where the four legs are. 27 The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used to carry the table. 28 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold and carry the table with them. 29 You are to make its dishes and pans of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. 30 Put the bread of the Presence on the table to be before Me at all times.
31 “You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The base and shaft of the lampstand is to be made of hammered work; and its ornamental cups, buds and blossoms shall be of one piece with it. 32 Six branches are to extend from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side, and three branches of the lampstand from the other side. 33 Three cups shaped like almond flowers, each with buds and blossoms, are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, with buds and blossoms, are to be on the other branch; and the same for all of the six branches going out from the lampstand. 34 On the lampstand itself there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers, each with its buds and blossoms. 35 There shall be one bud under the first pair of branches coming out of it, one bud under the second pair of branches, and one bud under the third pair of branches—six branches in all. 36 Their buds and branches shall all be of one piece. All the lampstand is to be a single hammered piece of pure gold.
37 “Then make seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the area in front of it. 38 Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold. 39 The lampstand with all these utensils is to made from a talent of pure gold. 40 See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”