Exodus 25 · Parashat Terumah

And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

Speak to the children of Yisra᾽el that they bring me an offering: of every man whose heart prompts him to give you shall take my offering.

And this is the offering which you shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,

and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

and rams’ skins dyed red, and taĥash skins, and shittim wood,

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,

shoham stones, and stones to be set in the efod, and in the breastplate.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so shall you make it.

And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a rim of gold round about.

And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners, and two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

And thou shalt make poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

And thou shalt put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, that the ark may be carried therewith.

The poles shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

And thou shalt put into the ark the Testimony which I shall give thee.

And thou shalt make a covering of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

And thou shalt make two keruvim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the covering.

And make one keruv on the one end, and the other keruv on the other end: of the covering shall you make the keruvim on the two ends of it.

And the keruvim shall stretch out their wings on high, overspreading the covering with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the covering shall the faces of the keruvim be.

And thou shalt put the covering above, upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the Testimony that I shall give thee.

And there I will meet with thee, and I will speak with thee from above the covering, from between the two keruvim which are upon the ark of the Testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment to the children of Yisra᾽el.

Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make for it a rim of gold round about.

And thou shalt make for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown for its border round about.

And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four legs.

Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the poles to bear the table.

And thou shalt make the poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and they shall be for carrying the table.

And thou shalt make its dishes, and its spoons, and its jars, and its bowls, used for pouring out: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before me always.

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: its shaft, and its branches, its bowls, its bulbs, and its flowers, shall be of the same.

And six branches shall come out of its sides; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

three cups made like almonds, with a bulb and a flower in one branch; and three cups made like almonds in the other branch, with a bulb and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like almonds, with their bulbs and flowers.

And there shall be a bulb under two branches of the same piece, and a bulb under two branches of the same piece, and a bulb under two branches of the same piece, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

Their bulbs and their branches shall be made of the same piece: all shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

And thou shalt make its seven lamps: and they shall light its lamps, that they may give light over against it.

And its tongs, and its ashpans, shall be of pure gold.

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shown thee in the mountain.