Exodus 25:1-21 ▼

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,

14 and have brought the poles into the rings on the sides of the Ark, to carry the Ark by them;

15 the poles are in the rings of the Ark, they are not turned aside from it;

16 and you have put the Testimony which I give to you into the Ark.

17 And you have made a propitiatory covering of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

18 and you have made two cherubim of gold; you make them beaten work at the two ends of the propitiatory covering;

19 and make one cherub at the end on this [side] and one cherub at the end on that [side]; at the propitiatory covering you make the cherubim on its two ends.

20 And the cherubim have been spreading out wings on high, covering over the propitiatory covering with their wings, and their faces [are] toward one another—the faces of the cherubim are toward the propitiatory covering.

21 And you have put the propitiatory covering on the Ark above, and you put the Testimony which I give to you into the Ark;