Exodus 25

¹The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

³This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,

⁴blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,

⁵rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

⁶oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

⁷onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

⁸Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

⁹According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

¹⁰“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

¹¹You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

¹²You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

¹³You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

¹⁴You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.