Exodus 25

¹And the Lord said to Moses,

²Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.

³And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass;

⁴And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;

⁵And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;

⁶Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

⁷Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag.

⁸And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.

⁹Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.

¹⁰And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.

¹¹It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it

¹²And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other.

¹³And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.

¹⁴And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.

¹⁵The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out.