¹And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

²Speak to the children of Israel, that they take a contribution for me; from every man whose heart impels him you will take my contribution.

³And this is the contribution that you will take from them: gold and silver and bronze,

⁴and cerulean and purple and scarlet worm and fine linen and goat hair,

⁵and the skins of rams dyed red, and the skins of antelopes, and acacia wood.

⁶Oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the incense of aromatic spices.

⁷Stones of onyx and stones for settings, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

⁸And they will make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the middle of them.

⁹According to all that I am showing you, the pattern of the dwelling-place and the pattern of all its articles, so you will make it.

¹⁰And they will make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

¹¹And you will overlay it with clean gold; from the inside and from the outside you will overlay it; and you will make a molding of gold on it all around.

¹²And you will cast four rings of gold for it, and put them on its four feet; two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side.

¹³And you will make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

¹⁴And you will bring the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by them.

¹⁵In the rings of the ark the poles will be; they will not be removed from it.

¹⁶And you will put into the ark the testimony that I will give you.

¹⁷And you will make an atonement cover of clean gold: two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

¹⁸And you will make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you will make them, at the two ends of the atonement cover.

¹⁹And make one cherub at this end and one cherub at that end; from the atonement cover you will make the cherubim, over its two ends.

²⁰And the cherubim will be spreading out wings upward, overshadowing with their wings the atonement cover, and their faces will be toward one another; toward the atonement cover will the faces of the cherubim be.

²¹And you will put the atonement cover on the ark from above, and into the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you.

²²And I will meet with you there, and I will speak with you from above the atonement cover, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, everything that I will command you for the children of Israel.

²³And you will make a table of the wood of the acacias: cubit his length, and cubit his breadth, and cubit and half his height.

²⁴And you will overlay it clean gold, and will make to it the molding of the gold round about.

²⁵And you will make a rim for it, a handbreadth wide all around, and make a molding of gold for its rim all around.

²⁶And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners, which are at its four feet.

²⁷Right alongside the rim the rings will be, as places for the poles, to carry the table.

²⁸And you will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried with them.

²⁹And you will make its dishes, its palm-cups, its jugs and its bowls with which the pouring out is done; of pure gold you will make them.

³⁰And you will set on the table the bread of the face, before my face always.

³¹And you will make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work the lampstand will be made: its base, its stalk, its goblets, its bulbs and its blossoms will be of a piece with it.

³²And six stalks come out from its sides: three stalks of the lampstand from its one side, and three stalks of the lampstand from its second side.

³³Three goblets shaped like almond blossoms on one stalk, with a bulb and a blossom, and three goblets shaped like almond blossoms on the other stalk, with a bulb and a blossom; so it is for the six stalks that come out of the lampstand.

³⁴And on the lampstand, four goblets shaped like almond blossoms, with its bulbs and its blossoms.

³⁵And a bulb under the two stalks from it, and a bulb under the two stalks from it, and a bulb under the two stalks from it, for the six stalks that come out of the lampstand.

³⁶Their bulbs and their stalks will be of a piece with it; all of it one hammered work of pure gold.

³⁷And you will make its lamps, seven; and one will raise up its lamps and make them shine over against its face.

³⁸And its snuffers and its fire-pans will be pure gold.

³⁹Of a talent of pure gold one will make it, and all these utensils.

⁴⁰And see, and make them by their pattern, which you are being shown on the mountain.