1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 ^r“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From ^severy man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. 3 And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 4 ^tblue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, 5 tanned ^urams’ skins, goatskins,¹ acacia wood, 6 ^voil for the lamps, ^wspices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 7 onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ^xephod and for the breastpiece. 8 And let them make me a ^ysanctuary, that ^zI may dwell in their midst. 9 ^aExactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the ^btabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.

10 ^c“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits² and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11 You shall overlay it with ^dpure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it. 12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its ^efour feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 13 You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14 And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. 15 The ^fpoles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it. 16 ^gAnd you shall put into the ark the ^htestimony that I shall give you.