BG - Old Testament

Chapter 25

Israel is commanded to donate property and build a tabernacle, the ark of testimony (with the mercy seat and cherubims), a table (for the shewbread), and the candlestick, all according to patterns shown to Moses on the mount.

1. And the Lord

spake unto Moses, saying,

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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.

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

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4. And

blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine

linen, and goats’ hair,

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5. And

rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and

shittim wood,

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Oil for the light,

spices for

anointing oil, and for sweet

incense,

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Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the

breastplate.

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8. And let them make me a

sanctuary; that I may

dwell among them.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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14. And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the

ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

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15. The

staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

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16. And thou shalt put into the ark the

testimony which I shall give thee.

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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.

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18. And thou shalt

make two

cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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30. And thou shalt set upon the table

shewbread before me alway.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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

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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.

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