Exodus - Chapter 25 | Good News Translation

  • 1. The LORD said to Moses,
  • 2. "Tell the Israelites to make an offering to me. Receive whatever offerings anyone wishes to give.
  • 3. These offerings are to be: gold, silver, and bronze;
  • 4. fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool; cloth made of goats' hair;
  • 5. rams' skin dyed red; fine leather; acacia wood;
  • 6. oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense;
  • 7. carnelians and other jewels to be set in the ephod of the High Priest and in his breastpiece.
  • 8. The people must make a sacred Tent for me, so that I may live among them.
  • 9. Make it and all its furnishings according to the plan that I will show you.
  • 10. "Make a Box out of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.
  • 11. Cover it with pure gold inside and out and put a gold border all around it.
  • 12. Make four carrying rings of gold for it and attach them to its four legs, with two rings on each side.
  • 13. Make carrying poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold
  • 14. and put them through the rings on each side of the Box.
  • 15. The poles are to be left in the rings and must not be taken out.
  • 16. Then put in the Box the two stone tablets that I will give you, on which the commandments are written.
  • 17. "Make a lid of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.
  • 18. Make two winged creatures of hammered gold,
  • 19. one for each end of the lid. Make them so that they form one piece with the lid.
  • 20. The winged creatures are to face each other across the lid, and their outspread wings are to cover it.
  • 21. Put the two stone tablets inside the Box and put the lid on top of it.
  • 22. I will meet you there, and from above the lid between the two winged creatures I will give you all my laws for the people of Israel.
  • 23. "Make a table out of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high.
  • 24. Cover it with pure gold and put a gold border around it.
  • 25. Make a rim 3 inches wide around it and a gold border around the rim.
  • 26. Make four carrying rings of gold for it and put them at the four corners, where the legs are.
  • 27. The rings to hold the poles for carrying the table are to be placed near the rim.
  • 28. Make the poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold.
  • 29. Make plates, cups, jars, and bowls to be used for the wine offerings. All of these are to be made of pure gold.
  • 30. The table is to be placed in front of the Covenant Box, and on the table there is always to be the sacred bread offered to me.
  • 31. "Make a lampstand of pure gold. Make its base and its shaft of hammered gold; its decorative flowers, including buds and petals, are to form one piece with it.
  • 32. Six branches shall extend from its sides, three from each side.
  • 33. Each of the six branches is to have three decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.
  • 34. The shaft of the lampstand is to have four decorative flowers shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.
  • 35. There is to be one bud below each of the three pairs of branches.
  • 36. The buds, the branches, and the lampstand are to be a single piece of pure hammered gold.
  • 37. Make seven lamps for the lampstand and set them up so that they shine toward the front.
  • 38. Make its tongs and trays of pure gold.
  • 39. Use seventy-five pounds of pure gold to make the lampstand and all this equipment.
  • 40. Take care to make them according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.
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