5. ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,
6. oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense,
7. onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece.
8. Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.
9. According to all that I am showing you – the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings – you must make it exactly so.
10. “They are to make an ark of acacia wood – its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches.
11. You are to overlay it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.
12. You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.
13. You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold,
14. and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them.
15. The poles must remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it.
16. You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.
17. “You are to make an atonement lid of pure gold; its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches.
18. You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid.
19. Make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end; from the atonement lid you are to make the cherubim on the two ends.