Exodus 25

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

²Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.

³And these are the things you must take: gold, and silver, and brass,

⁴Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

⁵And rams’ skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:

⁶Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling incense:

⁷Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational.

⁸And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:

⁹According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew thee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall make it:

¹⁰Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two cubits and a half: the breadth, a cubit and a half: the height, likewise, a cubit and a half.

¹¹And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold within and without: and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:

¹²And four golden rings, which thou shall put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.

¹³Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.

¹⁴And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them.