Exodus 25:1-13 ▼

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and they take a raised-offering for Me; you take My raised-offering from every man whose heart impels him.

3 And this [is] the raised-offering which you take from them: gold, and silver, and bronze,

4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats’ [hair],

5 and rams’ skins made red, and tachashim skins, and shittim wood,

6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of the spices,

7 shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.

8 And they have made a sanctuary for Me, and I have dwelt in their midst;

9 according to all that which I am showing you, the pattern of the Dwelling Place, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so you make [it].

10 And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;

11 and you have overlaid it [with] pure gold, you overlay it inside and outside, and you have made a ring of gold on it all around.

12 And you have cast four rings of gold for it, and have put [them] on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side;

13 and you have made poles of shittim wood, and have overlaid them [with] gold,