1: GOD spoke to Moses:
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 I want you to receive from them: gold, silver, bronze;
4: blue, purple, and scarlet material; fine linen; goats' hair;
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.
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.
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.
28: Make the poles of acacia wood and cover them with a veneer of gold. They will be used to carry the Table.
29: "Make plates, bowls, jars, and jugs for pouring out offerings. Make them of pure gold.
30: "Always keep fresh Bread of the Presence on the Table before me.
31: "Make a Lampstand of pure hammered gold. Make its stem and branches, cups, calyxes, and petals all of one piece.
32: Give it six branches, three from one side and three from the other;
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: On the main stem of the Lampstand, make four cups shaped like almonds, with calyx and petals,
35: a calyx extending from under each pair of the six branches,
36: the entire Lampstand fashioned from one piece of hammered pure gold.
37: "Make seven of these lamps for the Table. Arrange the lamps so they throw their light out in front.
38: Make the candle snuffers and trays out of pure gold.
39: "Use a seventy-five-pound brick of pure gold to make the Lampstand and its accessories.
40: Study the design you were given on the mountain and make everything accordingly.