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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 you shall receive from them.

Gold, silver, and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twine linen,

goat's hair, tan ramskins, 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 ephod, and for the breastpiece,

and let them make for 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 ark of acacia wood, two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breath, and a cubit

and half its weight, and 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 of the ark to carry the ark by them. The poles shall remain

in the rings of the ark, and they shall not be taken from 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

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