Exodus 25:1-22 ▼

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and they shall take for Me a contribution. From every man whose heart impels him, you? shall take My contribution.

3 And this is the contribution that you? shall take from them: gold, and silver, and bronze,

4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

5 and ram skins dyed red, and badger skins, and acacia wood,

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

7 onyx stones, and stones as settings for the ephod and for the breastplate.

8 And let them make for Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.

9 According to all that I am showing you—the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its vessels—and thus you? shall make it.

10 And they shall make an ark of acacia wood, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

11 And you shall overlay it with pure gold—from within and from without you shall overlay it—and you shall make on it a molding of gold all around.

12 And you shall cast for it four rings of gold and put them on its four feet, and two rings on the one side, and two rings on the second side.

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

14 And you shall bring the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them.

15 In the rings of the ark shall be the poles; they shall not be taken from it.

16 And you shall put into the ark the Testimony that I shall give to you.

17 And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its width.

18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold—of hammered work you shall make them—from the two ends of the mercy seat.

19 And make one cherub from this end, and one cherub from that end; from the mercy seat you? shall make the cherubim on its two ends.

20 And the cherubim shall be stretching out wings upward, covering over the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces each toward his brother; toward the mercy seat shall be the faces of the cherubim.

21 And you shall put the mercy seat on the ark from above, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I shall give to you.

22 And I will meet with you there, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat (from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the Testimony) all that I command you for the sons of Israel.