Exodus 25:1-11

1The Lord said to Moses:

2‘Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. Every person who wants to give can make a gift to me. You must receive their gifts.

3These are the gifts that you must receive from the people as an offering: gold, silver and bronze;

4blue, purple and red material; good linen and goat's hair;

5red leather from sheep's skins and other good leather; wood from acacia trees;

6olive oil for the lamps; spices for the special oil and for incense with a nice smell;

7onyx and other jewels to fix on the priest's ephod and his breastpiece.

8You must tell the Israelites to make a special place to be my home. Then I will live among them.

9I will show you how to make this tabernacle and everything that you will put inside it. But you must make everything in the way that I tell you.

10The Israelites must use acacia wood to make a big box. It must be 1 metre long, 75 centimetres wide and 75 centimetres high.

11Cover the wood with gold, both inside and outside. Build up the edges of the box with gold.