Exodus 25
Common English Bible
Gifts offered for the dwelling
25 The Lord said to Moses: 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 gift offerings that you should receive from them: gold, silver, and copper; 4 blue, purple, and deep red yarns; fine linen; goats’ hair; 5 rams’ skins dyed red; beaded leather;[a] acacia wood; 6 oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense; 7 gemstones; and gems for setting in the priest’s vest[b] and chest piece. 8 They should make me a sanctuary so I can be present among them. 9 You should follow the blueprints that I will show you for the dwelling and for all its equipment.
Instructions for building the chest containing the covenant
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 Cover it with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold molding all around it. 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 Make acacia-wood poles and cover them with gold. 14 Then put the poles into the rings on the chest’s sides and use them to carry the chest. 15 The poles should stay in the chest’s rings. They shouldn’t be taken out of them. 16 Put the covenant document that I will give you into the chest.
17 Then make a cover of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide. 18 Make two winged heavenly creatures of hammered gold, one for each end of the cover. 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 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 Put the gold cover on top of the chest and put the covenant document that I will give you inside the chest. 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.
Instructions for the table
23 Make an acacia-wood table, three feet long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. 24 Cover it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it. 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. Fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 27 The rings that house the poles used for carrying the table should be close to the frame. 28 Make the poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold. The table should be carried with these poles. 29 Make its plates, dishes, jars, and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them of pure gold. 30 Set the bread of the presence on the table so it is always in front of me.
Instructions for the lampstand
31 Make a lampstand of pure hammered gold. The lampstand’s base, branches, cups, flowers, and petals should all be attached to it. 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 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 In addition, on the lampstand itself there will be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its flower and petals. 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 Their flowers and their branches will be permanently attached to it. The whole lampstand should be one piece of pure hammered gold. 37 Make its seven lamps and set up its lamps so that they direct their light in front of the lampstand. 38 You should also make its tongs and fire pans out of pure gold. 39 All these items should be made from pure gold weighing one kikkar. 40 See to it that you make them according to the blueprint for them that you were shown on the mountain.
Footnotes
- Exodus 25:5 Or dolphin skins
- Exodus 25:7 Heb ephod
Exodus 25
Revised Geneva Translation
25 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, so that they receive an offering for Me. You shall take the offering for Me from every man whose heart gives it freely.
3 “And this is the offering which you shall take from them: gold and silver, and copper,
4 “and blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen and goat’s hair,
5 “and ram’s skins (colored red), and the skins of badgers, and shittim wood,
6 “oil for the light, spices for anointing oil and for the perfume of sweet savor,
7 “onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.
8 “Also they shall make Me a Sanctuary, so that I may dwell among them.
9 “Exactly according to all that I show you, shall you make the form of the Tabernacle, and the fashion of all its instruments.
10 “They shall also make an Ark of shittim wood, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half broad, and a cubit and a half high.
11 “And you shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold border all around it.
12 “And you shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them in its four corners. That is, two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
13 “And you shall make poles of shittim wood and cover them with gold.
14 “Then you shall put the poles in the rings, on the sides of the Ark, and carry the Ark with them.
15 “The poles shall be in the rings of the Ark. They shall not be taken away from it.
16 “So, you shall put the Testimony (which I shall give you) in the Ark.
17 “Also, you shall make a Mercy Seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half broad.
18 “And you shall make two Cherubims of gold; of work beaten out with a hammer you shall make them, at the two ends of the Mercy Seat.
19 “And you shall make one Cherub at one end, and the other Cherub at the other end. From one piece you shall make the Cherubims with the Mercy Seat, on its two ends.
20 “And the Cherubims shall stretch their wings on high, covering the Mercy Seat with their wings and their faces toward one another. Toward the Mercy Seat shall the faces of the Cherubims be.
21 “And you shall put the Mercy Seat on top of the Ark. And in the Ark you shall put the Testimony which I will give you.
22 “And there I will declare Myself to you. And from above the Mercy Seat, between the two Cherubims which are upon the Ark of the Testimony, I will tell you all things which I will give you in Commandment to the children of Israel.
23 “You shall also make a Table of shittim wood, two cubits long, one cubit broad, and a cubit and a half high.
24 “And you shall cover it with pure gold and make a border of gold all around it.
25 “You shall also make a rim for it all around, the width of a handbreadth. And you shall make a golden border all around the rim of it.
26 “After, you shall make four rings of gold for it, and shall put the rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.
27 “The rings shall be close to the border, as places for poles, to carry the Table.
28 “And you shall make the poles of shittim wood, and shall overlay them with gold, so that the Table may be carried with them.
29 “You shall also make dishes for it, and cups for it, and coverings for it, and goblets, with which it shall be covered. Of fine gold you shall make them.
30 “And you shall set Showbread upon the Table before Me continually.
31 “Also, you shall make a Lampstand of pure gold. Of work beaten out with a hammer shall the Lampstand be made. Its shaft and its branches, its bowls, its knobs and its flowers shall be of the same.
32 “Also, six branches shall come out of the sides of it—three branches of the Lampstand out of one side of it, and three branches of the Lampstand out of the other side of it.
33 “Three bowls are to be like almonds, one knob and one flower in one branch. And three bowls are to be like almonds in the other branch, one knob and one flower. So it is throughout the six branches that come out of the Lampstand.
34 “And in the shaft of the Lampstand shall be four bowls like almonds, with its knobs and its flowers.
35 “And there shall be a knob under its first pair of branches, and a knob under its second pair of branches, and a knob under its third pair of branches, according to the six branches coming out of the Lampstand.
36 “Their knobs and their branches shall be one piece. All this shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
37 “And you shall make the seven Lamps for it. And you shall put on the Lamps for it, so as to give light toward that which is before it.
38 “Also, its snuffers and snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
39 “You shall make it from a talent of fine gold, with all these instruments.
40 “See, therefore, that you make them after the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”
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