Exodus 25:1-11 ▼

1 The LORD spoke to Moses:

2 “Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give.

3 This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze;

4 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

5 ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

6 oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

7 and onyx along with other gemstones for mounting on the ephod and breastpiece.

8 “They are to make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them.

9 You must make it according to all that I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle as well as the pattern of all its furnishings.

10 “They are to make an ark of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.

11 Overlay it with pure gold; overlay it both inside and out. Also make a gold molding all around it.