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| 01 | This is what the LORD then said to Moses:
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| 02 | "Tell the Israelites to take up a collection for me. From every man you shall accept the contribution that his heart prompts him to give me.
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| 03 | These are the contributions you shall accept from them: gold, silver and bronze;
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| 04 | violet, purple and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
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| 05 | oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
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| 06 | rams' skins dyed red, and tahash skins; acacia wood;
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| 07 | onyx stones and other gems for mounting on the ephod and the breastpiece.
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| 08 | "They shall make a sanctuary for me, that I may dwell in their midst.
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| 09 | This Dwelling and all its furnishings you shall make exactly according to the pattern that I will now show you.
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| 10 | "You shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.
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| 11 | Plate it inside and outside with pure gold, and put a molding of gold around the top of it.
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| 12 | Cast four gold rings and fasten them on the four supports of the ark, two rings on one side and two on the opposite side.
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| 13 | Then make poles of acacia wood and plate them with gold.
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| 14 | These poles you are to put through the rings on the sides of the ark, for carrying it;
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| 15 | they must remain in the rings of the ark and never be withdrawn.
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| 16 | In the ark you are to put the commandments which I will give you.
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| 17 | "You shall then make a propitiatory of pure gold, two cubits and a half long, and one and a half cubits wide.
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| 18 | Make two cherubim of beaten gold for the two ends of the propitiatory,
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| 19 | fastening them so that one cherub springs direct from each end.
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| 20 | The cherubim shall have their wings spread out above, covering the propitiatory with them; they shall be turned toward each other, but with their faces looking toward the propitiatory.
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