Exodus chapter 25

Contributions for the sanctuary

The Lord said to Moses, speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution.

From every man whose heart moves him, you shall receive the contribution for me. And this is the

contribution that you shall receive from them. Gold, silver, and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet

yarns and fine twined linen, goat's hair, tanned rams skins, goat skins, acacia wood, oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil,

and for the fragrant incense, onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephid and for the breastpiece,

and let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell in their midst,

exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle,

and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.

The Ark of the Covenant.

They shall make an arc of acacia wood.

Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit

and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and

outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it. You shall cast four rings of gold

for it, and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. And you shall put the poles into the

rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. The poles shall remain in the rings

of the ark. They shall not be taken from it. And you shall put into the ark the testimony that

I shall give you. You shall make a mercy seat

of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. And you

shall make two cherubim of gold. Of hammered work shall you make them on the two ends of the mercy

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