Exodus 35:4-12

4Moses said to all the Israelites, ‘This is what the Lord has commanded:

5Take an offering to give to the Lord from the things that you have. Everyone who wants to give something may choose to give these things: gold, silver, bronze;

6blue, purple and red material; good linen, goats' hair;

7red leather from sheep's skins and other kinds of good leather; acacia wood;

8olive oil for the lamps; spices to make the special oil and the sweet incense;

9onyx stones and other jewels to fix on the ephod and on the breastpiece.

10Every clever person who has special skills must come to help. They must make all these things that the Lord has commanded:

11the tabernacle, with the tent and the other material that covers it; the rings, boards, sticks, poles and bases that are part of the tabernacle;

12the Covenant Box, with its poles, its special lid and the curtain that hides it;