Exodus 25 · Kingdoms of Scripture

1Yahweh spoke to Moses,

2“Tell the sons of Israel to take a contribution for me. From every man whose heart moves him, you shall take my contribution.

Notes (1)

Translation
Terumah is a contribution lifted up and set aside. “An offering” would blur it with the sacrifices. “Contribution” is printed.

3This is the contribution you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

4violet-blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, and goats’ hair,

Notes (1)

Translation
Tekelet is a violet-blue dye. Argaman is purple. Tolaat shani is scarlet, the dye of the crimson worm. Shesh is fine linen. Shittim is acacia wood. Tachash is an animal hide. The animal is not identified, so the name is kept. “Dolphin skin” and “fine leather” are guesses, and they are not printed.

5reddened ram skins, tachash skins, and acacia wood,

6oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

7shoham stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breast-piece.

8They shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among them.

Notes (1)

Translation
Miqdash is a holy place, a sanctuary. Shakhanti is “I will dwell.” The dwelling, mishkan, is named in the next verse.

9According to everything I show you, the pattern of the dwelling and the pattern of all its equipment, so you shall make it.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mishkan is the dwelling. “Tabernacle” is the older English, and it is not printed.

10They shall make a chest of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Notes (1)

Translation
Aron is a chest, a box. “Ark” is not printed. A cubit is a forearm’s length. No modern measure is added.

11You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

12You shall cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side.

13You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

14You shall bring the poles into the rings on the sides of the chest, to carry the chest with them.

15The poles shall stay in the rings of the chest. They shall not be removed from it.

16You shall put into the chest the Testimony that I will give you.

17You shall make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Notes (1)

Translation
Kapporet is the cover over the chest. “Mercy seat” is a later English name, and it is not printed.

18You shall make two cherubs of gold. You shall make them of hammered work, at the two ends of the cover.

Notes (1)

Translation
Keruvim are cherubs, the creatures named here. No further description of their species is added. Miqshah is hammered from one piece.

19Make one cherub at this end and one cherub at that end. You shall make the cherubs from the cover itself, on its two ends.

20The cherubs shall have their wings spread upward, screening the cover with their wings, their faces each toward the other. The faces of the cherubs shall be toward the cover.

21You shall put the cover on the chest, on top, and into the chest you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.

22I will meet with you there, and I will speak with you from above the cover, from between the two cherubs that are on the chest of the Testimony, everything I command you for the sons of Israel.

23You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

24You shall overlay it with pure gold, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

25You shall make a rim for it, a handbreadth all around, and you shall make a gold molding for its rim all around.

26You shall make four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs.

27The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles, to carry the table.

28You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with them.

29You shall make its plates, its ladles, its jars, and its bowls, with which it is poured. You shall make them of pure gold.

Notes (1)

Translation
The four vessels are plates, ladles, jars, and bowls. The last are the ones from which a drink offering is poured. The Hebrew names the use, not a later ritual title.

30You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me regularly.

Notes (1)

Translation
Lechem panim is bread of the presence, bread of the face. “Showbread” is not printed.

31You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

32Six branches shall come out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side.

33Three cups shaped like almond blossoms on one branch, a knob and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the other branch, a knob and a flower. So for the six branches that come out of the lampstand.

34On the lampstand itself, four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its knobs and its flowers.

35A knob under a pair of branches, out of it, a knob under the next pair of branches, out of it, and a knob under the next pair of branches, out of it, for the six branches that come out of the lampstand.

36Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one hammered work of pure gold.

37You shall make its seven lamps, and he shall set up its lamps, and it shall give light toward its front.

38Its tongs and its fire-pans shall be pure gold.

39A talent of pure gold shall be used for it and for all these utensils.

40See, and make them by their pattern, which you are shown on the mountain.”

1Yahweh spoke to Moses,

2“Tell the sons of Israel to take a contribution for me. From every man whose heart moves him, you shall take my contribution.

Notes (1)

Translation
Terumah is a contribution lifted up and set aside. “An offering” would blur it with the sacrifices. “Contribution” is printed.

3This is the contribution you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

4violet-blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, and goats’ hair,

Notes (1)

Translation
Tekelet is a violet-blue dye. Argaman is purple. Tolaat shani is scarlet, the dye of the crimson worm. Shesh is fine linen. Shittim is acacia wood. Tachash is an animal hide. The animal is not identified, so the name is kept. “Dolphin skin” and “fine leather” are guesses, and they are not printed.

5reddened ram skins, tachash skins, and acacia wood,

6oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

7shoham stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breast-piece.

8They shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among them.

Notes (1)

Translation
Miqdash is a holy place, a sanctuary. Shakhanti is “I will dwell.” The dwelling, mishkan, is named in the next verse.

9According to everything I show you, the pattern of the dwelling and the pattern of all its equipment, so you shall make it.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mishkan is the dwelling. “Tabernacle” is the older English, and it is not printed.

10They shall make a chest of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Notes (1)

Translation
Aron is a chest, a box. “Ark” is not printed. A cubit is a forearm’s length. No modern measure is added.

11You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

12You shall cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side.

13You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

14You shall bring the poles into the rings on the sides of the chest, to carry the chest with them.

15The poles shall stay in the rings of the chest. They shall not be removed from it.

16You shall put into the chest the Testimony that I will give you.

17You shall make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Notes (1)

Translation
Kapporet is the cover over the chest. “Mercy seat” is a later English name, and it is not printed.

18You shall make two cherubs of gold. You shall make them of hammered work, at the two ends of the cover.

Notes (1)

Translation
Keruvim are cherubs, the creatures named here. No further description of their species is added. Miqshah is hammered from one piece.