Chapter 25 About Offering

[1] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

[2] Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

[3] And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,

[4] And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

[5] And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

[6] Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

[7] Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

[8] And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

[9] According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

[10] And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

[11] And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

[12] And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

[13] And thou shalt make staves (of shittim wood), and overlay them with gold.

[14] And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

[15] The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

[16] And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

[17] And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

[18] And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold[1], of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

[19] And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

[20] And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

[21] And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

[22] And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

[23] Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

[24] And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

[25] And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

[26] And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

[27] Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

[28] And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

[29] And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

[30] And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

[31] And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

[32] And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

[33] Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

[34] And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

[35] And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

[36] Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

[37] And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

[38] And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

[39] Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

[40] And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

Chapter 26

[1] Note: notice that Moses is to make an image of a cherubim’s.  Remember when he was not to make any image in chapter 20?