1. And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
2. `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they take for Me a heave-offering; from every man whose heart impelleth him ye do take My heave-offering.
3. `And this [is] the heave-offering which ye take from them; gold, and silver, and brass,
4. and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair],
5. and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
6. oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,
7. shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.
8. `And they have made for Me a sanctuary, and I have tabernacled in their midst;
9. according to all that which I am shewing thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so ye do make [it].
10. `And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;
11. and thou hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, within and without thou dost overlay it, and thou hast made on it a ring of gold round about.
12. `And thou hast cast for it four rings of gold, and hast put [them] on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side;
13. and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them [with] gold,