| New International Version | NET Bible |
| 1The LORD said to Moses, | 1The LORD spoke to Moses: |
| 2"Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give. | 2"Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering. |
| 3These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze; | 3This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze, |
| 4blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; | 4blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, |
| 5ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood; | 5ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood, |
| 6olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; | 6oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense, |
| 7and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece. | 7onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece. |
| 8"Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. | 8Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them. |
| 9Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you. | 9According to all that I am showing you--the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings--you must make it exactly so. |
| 10"Have them make an ark of acacia wood--two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. | 10"They are to make an ark of acacia wood--its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches. |
| 11Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. | 11You are to overlay it with pure gold--both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it. |
| 12Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. | 12You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. |
| 13Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. | 13You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold, |
| 14Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it. | 14and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. |
| 15The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed. | 15The poles must remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it. |
| 16Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you. | 16You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you. |
| 17"Make an atonement cover of pure gold--two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. | 17"You are to make an atonement lid of pure gold; its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches. |
| 18And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover. | 18You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid. |
| 19Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends. | 19Make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end; from the atonement lid you are to make the cherubim on the two ends. |
| 20The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover. | 20The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the atonement lid. |
| 21Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you. | 21You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you. |
| 22There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites. | 22I will meet with you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites. |
| 23"Make a table of acacia wood--two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high. | 23"You are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches. |
| 24Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. | 24You are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it. |
| 25Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim. | 25You are to make a surrounding frame for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame. |
| 26Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are. | 26You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach the rings at the four corners where its four legs are. |
| 27The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table. | 27The rings are to be close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table. |
| 28Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them. | 28You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them. |
| 29And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings. | 29You are to make its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; you are to make them of pure gold. |
| 30Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times. | 30You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually. |
| 31"Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them. | 31"You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece. |
| 32Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand--three on one side and three on the other. | 32Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. |
| 33Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand. | 33Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on the next branch, and the same for the six branches extending from the lampstand. |
| 34And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms. | 34On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms, |
| 35One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair--six branches in all. | 35with a bud under the first two branches from it, and a bud under the next two branches from it, and a bud under the third two branches from it, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand. |
| 36The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold. | 36Their buds and their branches will be one piece, all of it one hammered piece of pure gold. |
| 37"Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it. | 37"You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it. |
| 38Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold. | 38Its trimmers and its trays are to be of pure gold. |
| 39A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories. | 39About seventy-five pounds of pure gold is to be used for it and for all these utensils. |
| 40See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain. | 40Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain. |
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