1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. ‘Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give.
3. These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
4. blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
5. ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood;
6. olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
7. and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
8. ‘Then let them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.
9. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
10. ‘Let them make an ark of acacia wood – two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
11. Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold moulding around it.
12. Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.