Exodus 25:1-10
The Materials for the Sanctuary
25:1 The Lord spoke to Moses:
25:2 “Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.
25:3 This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,
25:4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat’s hair,
25:5 ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,
25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense,
25:7 onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece.
25:8 Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.
25:9 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.
The Ark of the Covenant
25:10 “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.