2. Tell everyone in Israel who wants to give gifts that they must bring them to you.
3. Here is a list of what you are to collect: gold, silver, and bronze;
4. blue, purple, and red wool; fine linen; goat hair;
5. tanned ram skins; fine leather; acacia wood;
6. olive oil for the lamp; sweet-smelling spices to mix with the oil for dedicating the tent and ordaining the priests;
7. and onyx stones for the sacred apron and the breastpiece.
8. I also want them to build a special place where I can live among my people.
9. Make it and its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
18-19. Then hammer out two winged creatures of pure gold and fasten them to the lid at the ends of the chest.
20. The creatures must face each other with their wings spread over the chest.
21. Inside it place the two flat stones with the Ten Commandments and put the gold lid on top of the chest.
22. I will meet you there between the two creatures and tell you what my people must do and what they must not do.
23. Make a table of acacia wood eighty-eight centimetres long, forty-four centimetres wide, and sixty-six centimetres high.
24-25. Cover it with pure gold and put a gold edging around it with a border seventy-five millimetres wide.
26. Make four gold rings and attach one to each of the legs
27-28. near the edging. The poles for carrying the table are to be placed through these rings and are to be made of acacia wood covered with gold.
29-30. The table is to be kept in the holy place, and the sacred loaves of bread must always be put on it. All bowls, plates, jars, and cups for wine offerings are to be made of pure gold and set on this table.
31. Make a lampstand of pure gold. The whole lampstand, including its decorative flowers, must be made from a single piece of hammered gold
32. with three branches on each of its two sides.
33. There are to be three decorative almond blossoms on each branch