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Exodus 25

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1 The LORD said to Moses,
1 God spoke 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 that they are to set aside offerings for me. Receive the offerings from everyone who is willing to give.
3 These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
3 These are the offerings I want you to receive from them: gold, silver, bronze;
4 blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
4 blue, purple, and scarlet material; fine linen; goats' hair;
5 ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather ; acacia wood;
5 tanned rams' skins; dolphin skins; acacia wood;
6 olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
6 lamp oil; spices for anointing oils and for fragrant incense;
7 and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
7 onyx stones and other stones for setting in the Ephod and the Breastpiece.
8 “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.
8 Let them construct a Sanctuary for me so that I can live among them.
9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
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 “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 "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 Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
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 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 and attach them to 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 poles from acacia wood and cover them with a veneer of gold
14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.
14 and insert them into the rings on the sides of the Chest for carrying the Chest.
15 The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed.
15 The poles are to stay in the rings; they must not be removed.
16 Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.
16 "Place The Testimony that I give you in the Chest.
17 “Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
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 And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
18 "Sculpt two winged angels out of hammered gold for either end of the Atonement-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 one angel at one end, one angel at the other. Make them of one piece with the Atonement-Cover.
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 Make the angels with their wings spread, hovering over the Atonement-Cover, facing one another but looking down on it.
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 Set the Atonement-Cover as a lid over the Chest and place in the Chest The Testimony that I will give you.
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 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 “Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.
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 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
24 Cover it with a veneer of pure gold. Make a molding all around it of gold.
25 Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
25 Make the border a handbreadth wide all around it and a rim of gold for the border.
26 Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.
26 Make four rings of gold and attach the rings to the four legs
27 The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
27 parallel to the table top. They will serve as holders for the poles used to carry the Table.
28 Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.
28 Make the poles of acacia wood and cover them with a veneer of gold. They will be used to carry the Table.
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 plates, bowls, jars, and jugs for pouring out offerings. Make them of pure gold.
30 Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.
30 "Always keep fresh Bread of the Presence on the Table before me. The Lampstand
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. Make its stem and branches, cups, calyxes, and petals all of one piece.
32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.
32 Give it six branches, three from one side and three from the other;
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 put three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on one branch, three on the next, and so on - the same for all six branches.
34 And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.
34 On the main stem of the Lampstand, make four cups shaped like almonds, with calyx 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 a calyx extending from under each pair of the six branches,
36 The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
36 the entire Lampstand fashioned from one piece of hammered pure 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 seven of these lamps for the Table. Arrange the lamps so they throw their light out in front.
38 Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold.
38 Make the candle snuffers and trays out of pure gold.
39 A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.
39 "Use a seventy-five-pound brick of pure gold to make the Lampstand and its accessories.
40 See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
40 Study the design you were given on the mountain and make everything accordingly.
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