New International Version NIV
Common English Bible CEB
1 The LORD said to Moses,
1
The LORD said to Moses:
2 “Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give.
2
Tell the Israelites to collect gift offerings for me. Receive my gift offerings from everyone who freely wants to give.
3 These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
3
These are the gift offerings that you should receive from them: gold, silver, and copper;
4 blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
4
blue, purple, and deep red yarns; fine linen; goats' hair;
5 ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather ; acacia wood;
5
rams' skins dyed red; beaded leather; acacia wood;
6 olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
6
oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense;
7 and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
7
gemstones; and gems for setting in the priest's vest and chest piece.
8 “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.
8
They should make me a sanctuary so I can be present among them.
9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
9
You should follow the blueprints that I will show you for the dwelling and for all its equipment.
10 “Have them make an ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
10
Have them make an acacia-wood chest. It should be forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.
11 Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
11
Cover it with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold molding all around it.
12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
12
Cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
13 Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
13
Make acacia-wood poles and cover them with gold.
14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.
14
Then put the poles into the rings on the chest's sides and use them to carry the chest.
15 The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed.
15
The poles should stay in the chest's rings. They shouldn't be taken out of them.
16 Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.
16
Put the covenant document that I will give you into the chest.
17 “Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
17
Then make a cover of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.
18 And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
18
Make two winged heavenly creatures of hammered gold, one for each end of the cover.
19 Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends.
19
Put one winged heavenly creature at one end and one winged heavenly creature at the other. Place the winged heavenly creatures at the cover's two ends.
20 The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover.
20
The heavenly creatures should have their wings spread out above, shielding the cover with their wings. The winged heavenly creatures should face each other toward the cover's center.
21 Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you.
21
Put the gold cover on top of the chest and put the covenant document that I will give you inside the chest.
22 There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.
22
There I will meet with you. From there above the cover, from between the two winged heavenly creatures that are on top of the chest containing the covenant, I will deliver to you all that I command you concerning the Israelites.
23 “Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.
23
Make an acacia-wood table, three feet long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.
24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
24
Cover it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it.
25 Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
25
Make a frame around it that is four inches wide and a gold molding around the frame.
26 Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.
26
Make four gold rings for the table. Fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.
27 The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
27
The rings that house the poles used for carrying the table should be close to the frame.
28 Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.
28
Make the poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold. The table should be carried with these poles.
29 And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.
29
Make its plates, dishes, jars, and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them of pure gold.
30 Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.
30
Set the bread of the presence on the table so it is always in front of me.
31 “Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.
31
Make a lampstand of pure hammered gold. The lampstand's base, branches, cups, flowers, and petals should all be attached to it.
32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.
32
It should have six branches growing out from its sides, three branches on one side of the lampstand and three branches on the other side of the lampstand.
33 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.
33
One branch will have three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a flower and petals, and the next branch will also have three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a flower and petals. So it will be for the six branches that grow out of the lampstand.
34 And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.
34
In addition, on the lampstand itself there will be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its flower and petals.
35 One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all.
35
There will be a flower attached under the first pair of branches, a flower attached under the next pair of branches, and a flower attached under the last pair of branches. So it will be for the six branches that grow out of the lampstand.
36 The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
36
Their flowers and their branches will be permanently attached to it. The whole lampstand should be one piece of pure hammered gold.
37 “Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.
37
Make its seven lamps and set up its lamps so that they direct their light in front of the lampstand.
38 Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold.
38
You should also make its tongs and fire pans out of pure gold.
39 A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.
39
All these items should be made from pure gold weighing one kikkar.
40 See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
40
See to it that you make them according to the blueprint for them that you were shown on the mountain.
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide.
Copyright © 2011 Common English Bible