Exodus 25:4-14

4 1blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats' hair,
5 tanned 2rams' skins, goatskins,[a] acacia wood,
6 3oil for the lamps, 4spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
7 onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the 5ephod and for the breastpiece.
8 And let them make me a 6sanctuary, that 7I may dwell in their midst.
9 8Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the 9tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.

The Ark of the Covenant

10 10"They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits[b] and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
11 You shall overlay it with 11pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it.
12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its 12four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
13 You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
14 And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them.

Cross References 12

  • 1. Exodus 26:1, 31, 36
  • 2. Exodus 26:14
  • 3. Exodus 27:20
  • 4. Exodus 30:7, 23, 34; Exodus 31:11
  • 5. Exodus 28:4, 15
  • 6. Hebrews 9:1, 2; See Exodus 36:1-4
  • 7. Exodus 29:45; 1 Kings 6:13; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Revelation 21:3
  • 8. ver. 40
  • 9. Exodus 26:1
  • 10. Exodus 37:1-3; Deuteronomy 10:3; Hebrews 9:4
  • 11. ver. 24, 25; Exodus 30:3, 4; Exodus 37:2
  • 12. Exodus 37:3

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Uncertain; possibly dolphin skins, or dugong skins; compare 26:14
  • [b]. A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
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