1. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2. Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
3. And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver and brass,
4. And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair.
5. And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood.
6. Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
7. Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breast-plate.
8. And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
9. According to all that I show thee after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its instruments, even so shall ye make it.
10. And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its hight.
11. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold around it.
12. And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.