1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me.
3. And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,
4. blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair,
5. tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood,
6. oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
7. onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
8. And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.
9. Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
10. “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
11. You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it.