Exodus Chapter 25
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Exodus 25:1 The LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 25:2 “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.
Exodus 25:3 And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,
Exodus 25:4 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair,
Exodus 25:5 tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood,
Exodus 25:6 oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
Exodus 25:7 onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.
Exodus 25:9 Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
Exodus 25:10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
Exodus 25:11 You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it.
Exodus 25:12 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.
Exodus 25:13 You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
Exodus 25:14 And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them.
Exodus 25:15 The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.
Exodus 25:16 And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give you.
Exodus 25:17 “You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
Exodus 25:18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.
Exodus 25:19 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.
Exodus 25:20 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.
Exodus 25:21 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.
Exodus 25:22 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.
Exodus 25:23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.