1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "Tell the children of Israel to take up a contribution for me. You are to receive my contribution from every man whose heart prompts him to give.
3 This is the contribution you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
4 blue, purple and scarlet yarn, fine linen and goats' hair;
5 rams' skins dyed red, goatskins and acacia wood;
6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
7 onyx stones and other stones to be mounted on the ephod and on the breastpiece.
8 Have them make a sanctuary for me, so that I may dwell among them.
9 You are to make the tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly according to the pattern I am showing you.
10 They are to 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.
11 Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
12 Cast four gold rings for it and attach them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
13 Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, so that the ark can be carried with them.
15 The poles are to stay in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it.
16 Then place in the ark the testimony that I will give you.
17 Make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
18 Make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat.
19 Make one cherub at one end and the other cherub at the other end; make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat, at its two ends.
20 The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, sheltering the mercy seat with their wings, and they are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
21 Set the mercy seat on top of the ark, and place inside the ark the testimony that I will give you.
22 There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about everything I will command you for the children of Israel.
23 Make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.
24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
25 Make a rim a handbreadth wide around it, and put a gold molding around the rim.
26 Make four gold rings for it and fasten the rings at the four corners, where its four legs are.
27 The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used to carry the table.
28 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold; the table is to be carried with them.
29 Make its plates and dishes, and its flagons and bowls for pouring out offerings; make them of pure gold.
30 Place the bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
31 Make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be of hammered work, with its base and its shaft; its cups, its knobs and its flowers are to be of one piece with it.
32 Six branches are to extend from its sides, three branches of the lampstand on one side and three on the other.
33 On one branch there are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a knob and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the next branch, each with a knob and a flower; the same for all six branches that extend from the lampstand.
34 On the lampstand itself there are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with their knobs and flowers.
35 There is to be a knob under the first pair of branches extending from it, a knob under the second pair and a knob under the third pair; so for all six branches that extend from the lampstand.
36 The knobs and the branches are to be of one piece with it; the whole lampstand is to be a single hammered piece of pure gold.
37 Make its seven lamps, and set the lamps up on it so that they light the area in front of it.
38 Its tongs and its trays are to be of pure gold.
39 It is to be made, together with all these utensils, from a talent of pure gold.
40 See that you make them according to the pattern you are being shown on the mountain.