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.
15. The poles should stay in the chest’s rings. They shouldn’t be taken out of them.
16. Put the covenant document that I will give you into the chest.
17. Then make a cover of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.
18. Make two winged heavenly creatures of hammered gold, one for each end of the cover.