¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

^{2 Ref} Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.

^{3 Ref} And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass;

^{4 Ref} And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;

^{5 Ref} And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;

^{6 Ref} Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

^{7 Ref} Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag.

^{8 Ref} And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.

^{9 Ref} Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.

^{10 Ref} And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.

^{11 Ref} It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it