Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
The Lord said to Moses,
“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me.
And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,
oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them.
The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.
And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give you.
And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.
Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends.
The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.
And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim.
And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.
Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table.
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.
And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.
“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;
three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers,
and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand.
Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.
You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it.
And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall be the same size.
Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another.
And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.
“You shall also make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make.
The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains shall be the same size.
You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent.
You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.
“You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be a single whole.
And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
And the extra that remains in the length of the curtains, the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.
And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and a covering of goatskins on top.
“You shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
Ten cubits shall be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.
There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together. So shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle.
You shall make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side;
and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons;
and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames,
and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under the next frame.
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