Dual Panel1THE LORD spoke to Moses and said:
2Tell the Israelites to set aside a contribution for me; you are to accept whatever contribution each man freely offers.
3You may accept any of the following: gold, silver, copper;
4violet, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goats' hair;
5tanned rams' skins and dugong-hides; acacia-wood;
6oil for the lamp, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
7cornelians and other stones ready for setting on the ephod and the breastpiece.
8Make me a sanctuary, and I shall dwell among the Israelites.
9Make it exactly according to the design I show you, the design for the Tabernacle and for all its furniture. This is how you must make it:
10Make an 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.
11Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and put a band of gold all round it.
12Cast four gold rings for it, and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on each side.
13Make poles of acacia-wood and overlay them with gold,
14and insert the poles in the rings at the sides of the Ark to lift it.
15The poles are to remain in the rings of the Ark and never be removed.
16Put into the Ark the Testimony which I shall give you.
17Make a cover of pure gold two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
18Make two gold cherubim of beaten work at the ends of the cover,
19one at each end; make each cherub of one piece with the cover.
20They are to be made with wings spread out and pointing upwards to screen the cover with their wings. They will be face to face, looking inwards over the cover.
21Place the cover on the Ark, and put into the Ark the Testimony that I shall give you.
22It is there that I shall meet you; from above the cover, between the two cherubim over the Ark of the Testimony, I shall deliver to you all my commands for the Israelites.
23Make a table of acacia-wood two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.
24Overlay it with pure gold, and put a band of gold all round it.
25Make a rim round it a hand's breadth wide, and a gold band round the rim.
26Make four gold rings for the table, and put the rings at the four corners by the four legs.
27The rings, which are to receive the poles for carrying the table, must be adjacent to the rim.
28Make the poles of acacia-wood and overlay them with gold; they are to be used for carrying the table.
29Make dishes and saucers for it, and flagons and bowls from which drink-offerings may be poured; make them of pure gold.
30Put the Bread of the Presence on the table, to be always before me.
31Make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, stem and branches, shall be of beaten work: its cups, both calyxes and petals, shall be of one piece with it.
32There are to be six branches springing from the sides of the lampstand, three branches from one side and three branches from the other.
33There shall be 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.
34On the main stem of the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyx and petals,
35and there shall be calyxes of one piece with it under the six branches which spring from the lampstand, a single calyx under each pair of branches.
36The calyxes and the branches are to be of one piece with it, all a single piece of beaten work of pure gold.
37Make seven lamps for this and mount them to shed light over the space in front of the lampstand.
38Its tongs and firepans are to be of pure gold.
39The lampstand and all these fittings are to be made from one talent of pure gold.
40See that you work to the design shown to you on the mountain.