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Exodus 25:4-16 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

4. blue, purple and bright red yarn and fine linen goat hair

5. ram skins that are dyed red the hides of sea cows acacia wood

6. olive oil for the lights spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense

7. onyx stones and other jewels for the linen apron and chest cloth

8. "Have them make a sacred tent for me. I will live among them.

9. Make the holy tent and everything that belongs to it. Make them exactly like the pattern I will show you.

10. "Have them make a chest out of acacia wood. Make it three feet nine inches long and two feet three inches wide and high.

11. Cover it inside and outside with pure gold. Put a strip of gold around it.

12. "Make four gold rings for it. Join them to its four bottom corners. Put two rings on one side and two rings on the other.

13. "Then make poles out of acacia wood. Cover them with gold.

14. Put the poles through the rings on the sides of the chest to carry it.

15. The poles must remain in the rings of the chest. Do not remove them.

16. I will give you the tablets of the covenant. When I do, put them into the chest.

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