Exodus 25:1-22

1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me a heave-offering: of every one whose heart prompteth him, ye shall take my heave-offering.

3And this is the heave-offering that ye shall take of them: gold, and silver, and copper,

4and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' [hair],

5and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins; and acacia-wood;

6oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs;

7onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

8And they shall make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

9According to all that I shall shew thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the utensils thereof, even so shall ye make [it].

10And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood; two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

11And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold: inside and outside shalt thou overlay it; and shalt make upon it a border of gold round about.

12And cast four rings of gold for it, and put [them] at the four corners thereof, that two rings may be upon the one side thereof and two rings upon the other side thereof.

13And make staves of acacia-wood and overlay them with gold.

14And put the staves into the rings upon the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

15The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not come out from it.

16And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony that I shall give thee.

17And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

18And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat.

19And make one cherub at the end of the one side, and one cherub at the end of the other side; out of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim at the two ends thereof.

20And the cherubim shall stretch out [their] wings over it, covering over with their wings the mercy-seat, and their faces opposite to one another: toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be [turned].

21And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above on the ark, and shalt put in the ark the testimony that I shall give thee.

22And there will I meet with thee, and will speak with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, everything that I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.