Exodus 25:5-27

5 tanned rams' skins; dolphin skins; acacia wood;
6 lamp oil; spices for anointing oils and for fragrant incense;
7 onyx stones and other stones for setting in the Ephod and the Breastpiece.
8 Let them construct a Sanctuary for me so that I can live among them.
9 You are to construct it following the plans I've given you, the design for The Dwelling and the design for all its furnishings. The Chest
10 "First let them make a Chest using acacia wood: make it three and three-quarters feet long and two and one-quarter feet wide and deep
11 . Cover it with a veneer of pure gold inside and out and make a molding of gold all around it.
12 Cast four gold rings and attach them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
13 Make poles from acacia wood and cover them with a veneer of gold
14 and insert them into the rings on the sides of the Chest for carrying the Chest.
15 The poles are to stay in the rings; they must not be removed.
16 "Place The Testimony that I give you in the Chest.
17 "Now make a lid of pure gold for the Chest, an Atonement-Cover, three and three-quarters feet long and two and one-quarter feet wide.
18 "Sculpt two winged angels out of hammered gold for either end of the Atonement-Cover,
19 one angel at one end, one angel at the other. Make them of one piece with the Atonement-Cover.
20 Make the angels with their wings spread, hovering over the Atonement-Cover, facing one another but looking down on it.
21 Set the Atonement-Cover as a lid over the Chest and place in the Chest The Testimony that I will give you.
22 I will meet you there at set times and speak with you from above the Atonement-Cover and from between the angel-figures that are on it, speaking the commands that I have for the Israelites. The Table
23 "Next make a Table from acacia wood. Make it three feet long, one and one-half feet wide and two and one-quarter feet high.
24 Cover it with a veneer of pure gold. Make a molding all around it of gold.
25 Make the border a handbreadth wide all around it and a rim of gold for the border.
26 Make four rings of gold and attach the rings to the four legs
27 parallel to the table top. They will serve as holders for the poles used to carry the Table.
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