1. The Lord said to Moses:
2. Tell the Israelites to collect gift offerings for me. Receive my gift offerings from everyone who freely wants to give.
3. These are the gift offerings that you should receive from them: gold, silver, and copper;
4. blue, purple, and deep red yarns; fine linen; goats’ hair;
5. rams’ skins dyed red; beaded leather; acacia wood;
6. oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense;
7. gemstones; and gems for setting in the priest’s vest and chest piece.
8. They should make me a sanctuary so I can be present among them.
9. You should follow the blueprints that I will show you for the dwelling and for all its equipment.
10. Have them make an acacia-wood chest. It should be forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.
11. Cover it with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold molding all around it.
12. Cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
13. Make acacia-wood poles and cover them with gold.
14. Then put the poles into the rings on the chest’s sides and use them to carry the chest.