Exodus 25:1-12 ▼

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Tell the children of Israel to take an offering for Me. From every man whose heart moves him [to give willingly] you shall take My offering.

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

4 blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, fine twisted linen, goats’ hair,

5 rams’ skins dyed red, porpoise skins, acacia wood,

6 [olive] oil for lighting, balsam for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

7 onyx stones and setting stones for the [priest’s] ephod and for the breastpiece.

8 Have them build a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

9 You shall construct it in accordance with everything that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture.

10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

11 You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, overlay it inside and out, and you shall make a gold border (frame) around its top.

12 You shall cast four gold rings for it and attach them to the four feet, two rings on either side.