Exodus 25:1-11

1The Lord spoke to Moses:

2“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.

3This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

4blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat’s hair,

5ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,

6oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense,

7onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece.

8Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

9According to all that I am showing you – the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings – you must make it exactly so.

10“They are to make an ark of acacia wood – its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches.

11You are to overlay it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.