⁵ Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;

² 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 And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass;

⁴ And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;

⁵ And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;

⁶ Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

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

³ Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

⁹ Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.

⁴¹ And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.

⁴² And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing.

⁴³ And he made his disciples come to him, and said to them, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting money into the box:

⁴⁴ Because they all put in something out of what they had no need for; but she out of her need put in all she had, even all her living.

⁷ Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.

¹¹ Then make the doing of it complete; so that as you had a ready mind, you may give effect to it as you are able.

¹² For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.