Exodus 25

1Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ex 35:4 · Num 7:3 · Num 18:24 · Deut 16:16 · Judg 5:9 · 1Chr 29:1 · +8 more

3This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,Cross-references: Deut 8:9 · Job 28:2

4blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,Cross-references: Gen 41:42 · Ezek 16:10 · Rev 19:8

5rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,Cross-references: Ex 26:14 · Ex 26:26 · Ex 26:37 · Ex 36:20

6oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,Cross-references: Ex 25:37 · Ex 27:20 · Ex 30:23 · Ex 40:24

7onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.Cross-references: Ex 28:4 · Ex 28:6

8Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.Cross-references: Ex 15:2 · Ex 29:45 · Ex 36:1 · Lev 4:6 · Lev 10:4 · Lev 21:12 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 25:40 · 1Chr 28:11 · Acts 7:44 · Heb 8:5 · Heb 9:9

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.Cross-references: Ex 37:1 · Deut 10:1 · 2Chr 8:11 · Heb 9:4 · Rev 11:19

11You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.Cross-references: Ex 25:24 · Ex 30:3 · 1Ki 6:20 · 2Chr 3:4

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.Cross-references: Ex 25:15 · Ex 25:26 · Ex 26:29 · Ex 27:7 · Ex 37:5 · Ex 38:7

13You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.Cross-references: Ex 25:28 · Ex 27:6 · Ex 30:5 · Ex 37:4 · Ex 40:20 · Num 4:6 · +4 more

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

15The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:8 · 2Chr 5:9

16You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.Cross-references: Ex 16:34 · Ex 27:21 · Ex 30:6 · Ex 30:36 · Ex 31:18 · Ex 32:15 · +11 more

17You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.Cross-references: Ex 26:34 · Ex 37:6 · Ex 40:20 · Lev 16:12 · 1Chr 28:11 · Rom 3:25 · +3 more

18You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.Cross-references: Gen 3:24 · Ex 37:7 · 1Sam 4:4 · 1Ki 6:23 · 1Ki 8:6 · 1Chr 28:18 · +4 more

19Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

20The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.Cross-references: Gen 28:12 · Ex 25:18 · 1Ki 8:7 · 1Chr 28:18 · 2Chr 3:10 · Isa 6:1 · +13 more

21You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.Cross-references: Ex 25:16 · Ex 26:34 · Rom 10:4

22There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 18:33 · Ex 20:24 · Ex 29:42 · Ex 30:6 · Ex 30:36 · Ex 31:6 · +14 more

23“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height one and a half cubits.Cross-references: Ex 37:10 · Ex 40:22 · Lev 24:6 · Num 3:31 · 1Ki 7:48 · 1Chr 28:16 · +4 more

24You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.Cross-references: Ex 25:11 · 1Ki 6:20

25You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.Cross-references: Ex 30:3 · Ex 37:2

26You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

27The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.Cross-references: Ex 25:14 · Ex 25:28

28You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.Cross-references: Ex 25:14 · Ex 25:27 · Num 10:17 · Acts 9:15

29You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls with which to pour out offerings. You shall make them of pure gold.Cross-references: Ex 37:16 · Lev 24:5 · Num 4:7 · Num 7:13 · Num 7:19 · Num 7:31 · +6 more

30You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.Cross-references: Ex 35:13 · Ex 39:36 · Lev 24:5 · Num 4:7 · 1Sam 21:6 · 1Chr 9:32 · +5 more

31“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.Cross-references: Ex 35:14 · Ex 37:17 · Ex 40:24 · 1Ki 6:18 · 1Ki 7:24 · 1Ki 7:49 · +7 more

32There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side;

33three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand;Cross-references: Ex 37:19 · Num 17:4 · Jer 1:11 · Zech 4:3

34and in the lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

35and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.

36Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.Cross-references: Ex 25:18 · Num 8:4 · 1Ki 10:16 · 2Chr 9:15

37You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.Cross-references: Ex 27:21 · Ex 30:8 · Ex 37:23 · Ex 40:24 · Lev 24:2 · Num 8:2 · +17 more

38Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.Cross-references: Ex 37:23 · Num 4:9 · 1Ki 7:50 · 2Ki 12:13 · 2Ki 25:14 · 2Chr 4:21 · +2 more

39It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.

40See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.Cross-references: Ex 25:9 · Ex 26:30 · Ex 39:42 · Num 8:4 · 1Chr 28:11 · 1Chr 28:19 · +3 more