Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them – they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing.

You are to tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you? – majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, working wonders?

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What will I do with this people? – a little more and they will stone me!”

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good!

If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

You are to overlay it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

“You are to make an atonement lid of pure gold; its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches.

“You are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.

You are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it.

You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

“You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it.

About seventy-five pounds of pure gold is to be used for it and for all these utensils.

“You are to make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.

So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side,

“You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

“You are to make a hanging for the entrance of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer.

You are to make its four horns on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, and you are to overlay it with bronze.

You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.