So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”

and its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their tops and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze.

He made an atonement lid of pure gold; its length was three feet nine inches, and its width was two feet three inches.

He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid,

He made a surrounding frame for it about three inches wide, and he made a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

Their buds and their branches were of one piece; all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold.

He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold filigree settings.

They made for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold,

They attached the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece;

They came, men and women alike, all who had willing hearts. They brought brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry, and everyone came who waved a wave offering of gold to the Lord.

All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary (namely, the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters – thus you will plunder Egypt!”

Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold.”

You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach the rings at the four corners where its four legs are.

“You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece.

You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit.

The artisans are to use the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.

The artistically woven waistband of the ephod that is on it is to be like it, of one piece with the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.