The Second Book of Moses: Exodus

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- Chapter 25 -

(Exodus 35:4–9)

Yahweh said to Moses,

“Tell the Israelites that they must give offerings to me. Receive from the people every offering that they want to give to me.

These are the things that they may offer: gold, silver, bronze,

blue and purple and scarlet dyed wool, fine linen, goats’ hair for making cloth,

ram skins that have been tanned, sea cow hides, hard wood from acacia trees,

olive oil to burn in the lamps, spices to put in the olive oil for anointing the priests, and spices to put in the sweet-smelling incense,

onyx stones and other expensive stones to be fastened to the priest’s sacred apron and to be put on the chest pouch that is to be fastened to the apron.

Tell the people to make a big sacred tent for me so that I can live in it in their midst.

They must make the sacred tent and all the things that will be used inside it according to the plan that I will show you.

The Ark of the Covenant

(Exodus 37:1–5)

Tell the people to make a sacred chest from acacia wood. It is to be one meter long, three-quarters of a meter wide and three-quarters of a meter high.

Cover the chest with pure gold inside and outside and put a gold border around the top of it.

They must make four rings from gold and fasten them to the legs of the chest. Put two rings on each side of the chest.

They must make two poles from acacia wood, and they must cover them with gold.

They must put the poles into the rings on the sides of the chest so that the chest can be carried by the poles.

The poles must always be left in the rings; they must not take the poles out of the rings.

Put inside the chest the two stone slabs that I will give you on which I have written my commandments.

The Mercy Seat

(Exodus 37:6–9)

Tell them to make a lid for the chest from pure gold; it will be the place where I will cover people’s sins. It also is to be one meter long and three-quarters of a meter wide.

Tell them to hammer a large lump of gold into the form of two creatures that have wings for the two ends of the lid.

One of these is to be put at each end of the chest, but the gold from which they are made must be joined to the gold from which the lid is made.

Tell them to place the winged creatures so that their wings touch each other and spread out over the lid. The two winged creatures were facing each other and they both were looking toward the center of the chest.

Put the stone slabs that I will give you inside the chest. Then fasten the lid onto the top of the chest.

I will set times to talk with you there. From above the lid of the chest, between the two winged creatures, I will tell to you all my laws that you must transmit to the Israelite people.

The Table of Showbread

(Exodus 37:10–16; Leviticus 24:5–9)

Tell them to make a table from acacia wood. It is to be one meter long, one-half of a meter wide, and three-quarters of a meter high.

Tell them to cover it with pure gold and put a gold border around it.

Tell them to make a rim all around it, four-fifths of a meter wide, and to put a gold border around the rim.

Tell them to make four rings from gold and fasten them to the four corners of the table, one ring close to each leg of the table.

The rings should be fastened to the table near the rim at the legs in order to carry the table with poles.

Make two poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold. The poles for carrying the table are to be inserted into the rings.

Also tell them to make plates, spoons, jars, and bowls to be used when the priests pour out wine to offer to me. They must all be made from pure gold.

On the table in front of the chest, there must always be the bread to display before me that the priests have offered to me.

The Lampstand

(Exodus 37:17–24; Numbers 8:1–4)

Tell them to make a lampstand from pure gold. They must hammer one large lump of gold to make its base and its shaft. The branches of the lampstand, the cups for holding the oil, the flower buds and the flower petals that decorate the branches of the lamp, the base, and the shaft are all to be hammered from one big lump of gold.

There are to be six branches on the lampstand, three on each side of the shaft.

Each of the branches is to have on it three gold decorations that will look like almond blossoms. These decorations must also have flower buds and flower petals.

On the shaft of the lampstand there are to be four gold decorations that also look like almond blossoms, each one with flower buds and petals.

On each side, there is to be one flower bud beneath each of the branches.

All these buds and branches, along with the shaft, are to be hammered from one large lump of pure gold.

Also tell them to make seven small cups for holding oil. One is to be put on top of the shaft and the others are to be put on top of the branches. Place these cups so that when the lamps are lit, the light will shine toward the front of the lampstand.

Tell them to make tongs from pure gold, to remove the burned wicks and trays in which to put the burned wicks.

Tell them to use thirty-three kilograms of pure gold to make the lampstand, the tongs, and the trays.

Make sure that they make these things according to the instructions that I am giving you here on this mountain.”

(Exodus 35:4–9)

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

“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.

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

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

rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides,(a) acacia wood,

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

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

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

According 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.

The Ark of the Covenant

(Exodus 37:1–5)

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

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

You 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.

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

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

The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.

The Mercy Seat

(Exodus 37:6–9)

You 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.

You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

Make 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.

The 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.

You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.

There 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.

The Table of Showbread

(Exodus 37:10–16; Leviticus 24:5–9)

“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.

You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

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

The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls with which to pour out offerings. You shall make them of pure gold.

You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

The Lampstand

(Exodus 37:17–24; Numbers 8:1–4)

“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.

There 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;

three 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;

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

and 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.

Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.

It shall be made of a talent

(c)

of pure gold, with all these accessories.

See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

Footnotes

(a)25:5 or, fine leather

(b)25:10 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.