English Standard Version

Exodus 25:21-32 English Standard Version (ESV)

21. And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.

22. There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.

23. “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

24. You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it.

25. And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim.

26. And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

27. Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

28. You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.

29. And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

30. And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.

31. “You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

32. And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;