Dual Panel1Bezalel then made the Ark, a chest of acacia-wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.
2He overlaid it with pure gold both inside and out, and put a band of gold all round it.
3He cast four gold rings to be on its four feet, two rings on each side.
4He made poles of acacia-wood and overlaid them with gold,
5and inserted the poles in the rings at the sides of the Ark to lift it.
6He made a cover of pure gold two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
7He made two gold cherubim of beaten work at the ends of the cover,
8one at each end; he made each cherub of one piece with the cover.
9They had wings spread out and pointing upwards, screening the cover with their wings; they stood face to face, looking inwards over the cover.
10He made the table of acacia-wood two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.
11He overlaid it with pure gold and put a band of gold all round it.
12He made a rim round it a hand's breadth wide, and a gold band round the rim.
13He cast four gold rings for it, and put the rings at the four corners by the four legs.
14The rings, which were to receive the poles for carrying the table, were adjacent to the rim.
15These poles he made of acacia-wood and overlaid them with gold.
16He made the vessels for the table, its dishes and saucers, and its flagons and bowls from which drink-offerings were to be poured; he made them of pure gold.
17He made the lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, stem and branches, was of beaten work, its cups, both calyxes and petals, being of one piece with it.
18There were six branches springing from the sides of the lampstand, three branches from one side and three branches from the other.
19There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyx and petals on the first branch, three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyx and petals on the next branch, and similarly for all six branches springing from the lampstand.
20On the main stem of the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyx and petals,
21and there were calyxes of one piece with it under the six branches which sprang from the lampstand, a single calyx under each pair of branches.
22The calyxes and the branches were of one piece with it, all a single piece of beaten work of pure gold.
23He made its seven lamps, its tongs, and firepans of pure gold.
24The lampstand and all these fittings were made from one talent of pure gold.
25He made the altar of incense of acacia-wood; it was square, a cubit long by a cubit broad, and it stood two cubits high, its horns of one piece with it.
26He overlaid it with pure gold, the top, all the sides, and the horns, and he put round it a band of gold.
27He made pairs of gold rings for it; he put them under the gold band at the two corners on both sides to receive the poles by which it was to be carried.
28He made the poles of acacia-wood and overlaid them with gold.
29He prepared the sacred anointing oil and the fragrant incense, pure, compounded by the perfumer's art.