Chapter 25
1 The Lord said to Moses:
2 Tell everyone in Israel who wants to give gifts that they must bring them to you.
3 Here is a list of what you are to collect: Gold, silver, and bronze;
4 blue, purple, and red wool; fine linen; goat hair;
5 tanned ram skins; fine leather; acacia wood;
6 olive oil for the lamp; sweet-smelling spices to mix with the incense and with the oil for dedicating the tent and ordaining the priests;
7 and onyx stones and other gems for the sacred vest and the breastpiece.
8 I also want them to build a special place where I can live among my people.
9 Make it and its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you. The Lord said to Moses:
10 Tell the people to build a chest of acacia wood 110 centimeters long, 66 centimeters wide, and 66 centimeters high.
11 Cover it inside and out with pure gold and put a gold edging around the lid.
12 Make four gold rings and attach one of them to each of the four legs of the chest.
13 Make two poles of acacia wood. Cover them with gold
14 and put them through the rings, so the chest can be carried by the poles.
15 Don’t ever remove the poles from the rings.
16 When I give you the Ten Commandments written on two flat stones, put them inside the chest.
17 Make the lid of the chest out of pure gold.
18 The creatures must face each other with their wings spread over the chest.
19 Inside it place the two flat stones with the Ten Commandments on them and put the gold lid on top of the chest.
20 I will meet you there between the two creatures and tell you what my people must do and what they must not do. The Lord said:
21 Make a table of acacia wood 88 centimeters long, 44 centimeters wide, and 66 centimeters high.
22 Make four gold rings and attach one to each of the legs
23 The Lord said:
24 Make a lampstand of pure gold. The whole lampstand, including its decorative flowers, must be made from a single piece of hammered gold
25 with three branches on each of its two sides.
26 There are to be three decorative almond blossoms on each branch
27 and four on the stem.
28 There must also be a blossom where each pair of branches comes out from the stem.
29 The lampstand, including its branches and decorative flowers, must be made from a single piece of hammered pure gold.
30 The lamp on the top and those at the end of each of its six branches must be made so as to shine toward the front of the lampstand.
31 The tongs and trays for taking care of the lamps are to be made of pure gold.
32 The lampstand and its equipment will require 35 kilograms of pure gold,
33 and they must be made according to the pattern I showed you on the mountain.