Offerings to Build the Tabernacle

25 The Lord spoke to Moses: “Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give.(A) This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze; blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair; ram skins dyed red(B) and fine leather;[a] acacia wood; oil(C) for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; and onyx[b] along with other gemstones for mounting on the ephod and breastpiece.[c](D)

“They are to make a sanctuary(E) for me so that I may dwell(F) among them. You must make it according to all that I show you—the pattern(G) of the tabernacle as well as the pattern of all its furnishings.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:5 Hb obscure
  2. 25:7 Or carnelian
  3. 25:7 Traditionally, breastplate

An Offering for the Sanctuary

25 The Lord told Moses, “Tell the Israelis to take an offering for me, and you are to accept my offering from every person whose heart moves him to give.[a] This is the offering that you are to accept from them: gold, silver, and bronze; blue, purple, and scarlet material;[b] fine linen and goat hair; ram skins dyed[c] red, dolphin[d] skins, and acacia wood; oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for aromatic incense; and onyx stones, stones for setting on the ephod and the breast piece.[e] Let them make a sanctuary for me so I may live among them. This is how you are to make it: according to all that I’m showing you, according to the pattern for the tent and the pattern for all its furnishings.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 25:2 Lit. moves him
  2. Exodus 25:4 The Heb. lacks material; and so throughout the book
  3. Exodus 25:5 Or tanned
  4. Exodus 25:5 Or dugong, a marine animal similar to a walrus or manatee
  5. Exodus 25:7 Or the pouch on the breast piece