Exodus 25:1-21 ▼

1 The LORD told Moses,

2 |Tell the Israelis to take an offering for me, and you are to accept my offering from every person whose heart moves him to give.

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

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

5 ram skins dyed red, dolphin skins, and acacia wood;

6 oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for aromatic incense;

7 and onyx stones, stones for setting on the ephod and the breast piece.

8 Let them make a sanctuary for me so I may live among them.

9 This is how you are to make it: according to all that I'm showing you, according to the pattern for the tent and the pattern for all its furnishings.|

10 |They are to 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 are to overlay it with pure gold—you are to overlay it inside and outside—and you are to make a gold molding around it.

12 You are to cast four rings for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two rings on its other side.

13 You are to make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

14 You are to put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark with which to carry it.

15 The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark and are not to be removed from it.

16 You are to put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.

17 |You are to make a Mercy Seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

18 You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered work at the two ends of the Mercy Seat.

19 Place one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. You are to make the cherubim at the two ends of the Mercy Seat, and of one piece with it.

20 The cherubim are to spread their wings upward, covering the Mercy Seat with their wings and facing each other. The faces of the cherubim is to be turned toward the Mercy Seat.

21 You are to put the Mercy Seat on top of the ark, and put the Testimony that I'll give you into the ark.