4. blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
5. rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
6. oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
7. onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
8. Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
9. According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
10. “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
11. You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
12. You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
13. You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
14. You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
15. The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.
16. You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.
17. You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.