Exodus

The second book of Moses, called Exodus, chapter 25, New English Translation and King James Version

Chapter 25 New English Translation

The Materials for the Sanctuary

   1 The 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. 3 This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze, 4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, 5 ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood, 6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense, 7 onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece. 8 Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them. 9 According 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.

The Ark of the Covenant

   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. 11 You 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. 12 You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 13 You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold, 14 and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. 15 The poles must remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it. 16 you are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.
   17 "you are to make an atonement lid of pure gold; its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches. 18 you are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid. 19 make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end; from the atonement lid you are to make the cherubim on the two ends. 20 the cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the atonement lid. 21 you are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you. 22 I will meet with you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.

The Table for the Bread of the Presence

   23 "you are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches. 24 you are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it. 25 you are to make a surrounding frame for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame. 26 you are to make four rings of gold for it and attach the rings at the four corners where its four legs are. 27 The rings are to be close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table. 28 you are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them. 29 you are to make its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; you are to make them of pure gold. 30 you are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.

The Lampstand

   31 "you are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece. 32 six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. 33 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on the next branch, and the same for the six branches extending from the lampstand. 34 on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms, 35 with a bud under the first two branches from it, and a bud under the next two branches from it, and a bud under the third two branches from it, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand. 36 Their buds and their branches will be one piece, all of it one hammered piece of pure gold.
   37 "you are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it. 38 its trimmers and its trays are to be of pure gold. 39 About seventy-five pounds of pure gold is to be used for it and for all these utensils. 40 Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.

King James Version

   1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
   2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
   3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
   4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
   5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
   6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
   7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
   8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
   9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
   10 ¶ And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
   11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
   12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
   13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
   14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
   15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
   16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
   17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
   18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
   19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
   20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
   21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
   22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
   23 ¶ Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
   24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
   25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
   26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
   27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
   28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
   29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
   30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
   31 ¶ And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
   32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
   33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
   34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
   35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
   36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
   37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
   38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
   39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
   40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.