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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 25 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/25.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/25-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Exodus 25</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/24.htm" title="Exodus 24">◄</a> Exodus 25 <a href="../exodus/26.htm" title="Exodus 26">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/25.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Contributions for the Sanctuary</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>tanned rams’ skins, goatskins,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Uncertain; possibly dolphin skins, or dugong skins; compare 26:14">a</a></sup></span> acacia wood, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.</p> <p class="heading">The Ark of the Covenant</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters">b</a></sup></span> and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give you.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“You shall make a mercy seat<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or cover">c</a></sup></span> of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.</p> <p class="heading">The Table for Bread</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A handbreadth was about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters">d</a></sup></span> wide, and a molding of gold around the rim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.</p> <p class="heading">The Golden Lampstand</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms">e</a></sup></span> of pure gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Uncertain; possibly <i>dolphin skins</i>, or <i>dugong skins</i>; compare 26:14<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">cubit</i> was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Or <i>cover</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> A <i class="catch-word">handbreadth</i> was about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">39</span> A <i class="catch-word">talent</i> was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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