1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. “Tell the Israelites to choose something to give me as a special contribution. You must accept whatever contribution each person freely gives.
3. This is the kind of contribution you will accept from them: gold, silver, and bronze,
4. violet, purple, and bright red yarn, fine linen, goats’ hair,
5. rams’ skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,
6. olive oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense,
7. onyx stones, and other precious stones to be set in the ⌊chief priest’s⌋ ephod and his breastplate.
8. “Then have them make a holy place for me, and I will live among them.
9. Make the tent and all its furnishings exactly like the plans I am showing you.
10. “Make an ark of acacia wood 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.
11. Cover it with pure gold inside and out, and put a gold molding around it.