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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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“Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring Me an offering. From everyone who gives it willingly with his heart you shall take My offering.
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And this is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze;
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blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and goats’ hair;
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ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia wood;
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oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense;
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onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.
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And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
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According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
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“And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
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And you shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and shall make on it a molding of gold all around.
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You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners; two rings shall be on one side, and two rings on the other side.
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And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
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You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, that the ark may be carried by them.
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The poles shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.
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And you shall put into the ark the Testimony which I will give you.
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“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.
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And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
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Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat.
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And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
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You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.
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And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.
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“You shall also make a table of acacia wood; two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
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And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a molding of gold all around.
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You shall make for it a frame of a handbreadth all around, and you shall make a gold molding for the frame all around.
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And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs.
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The rings shall be close to the frame, as holders for the poles to bear the table.
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And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
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You shall make its dishes, its pans, its pitchers, and its bowls for pouring. You shall make them of pure gold.
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And you shall set the showbread on the table before Me always.
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“You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece.
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And six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side.
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Three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower—and so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand.
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On the lampstand itself four bowls shall be made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flower.
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And there shall be a knob under the first two branches of the same, a knob under the second two branches of the same, and a knob under the third two branches of the same, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand.
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Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece; all of it shall be one hammered piece of pure gold.
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You shall make seven lamps for it, and they shall arrange its lamps so that they give light in front of it.
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And its wick-trimmers and their trays shall be of pure gold.
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It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.
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And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
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