1. The Lord said to Moses:
2. Tell everyone in Israel who wants to give gifts that they must bring them to you.
3. Here is a list of what you are to collect: gold, silver, and bronze;
4. blue, purple, and red wool; fine linen; goat hair;
5. tanned ram skins; fine leather; acacia wood;
6. olive oil for the lamp; sweet-smelling spices to mix with the oil for dedicating the tent and ordaining the priests;
7. and onyx stones for the sacred apron and the breastpiece.
8. I also want them to build a special place where I can live among my people.
9. Make it and its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
10. Tell the people to build a chest of acacia wood one hundred and ten centimetres long, sixty-six centimetres wide, and sixty-six centimetres high.
11. Cover it inside and out with pure gold and put a gold edging around the lid.