Exodus 25:1-21 ▼

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Tell the sons of Israel to take a contribution for Me; from everyone whose heart moves him you shall take My contribution.

3 This is the contribution which you are to take from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

4 violet, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen, goat hair,

5 rams’ skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,

6 oil for lighting, balsam oil for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

7 onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

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

9 According to all that I am going to show you as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, so you shall construct it.

10 “Now they shall construct 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 it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

12 You shall also cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet; two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

13 And you shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.

15 The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.

16 You shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

17 “And you shall make an atoning cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

18 You shall make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the atoning cover.

19 Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the atoning cover at its two ends.

20 And the cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the atoning cover with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the atoning cover.

21 Then you shall put the atoning cover on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you.