Exodus 25 Free Bible Version
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1 The Lord told Moses,
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Instruct the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive my offering from everyone who willingly wants to give.
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
3 These are the items you are to accept from them as contributions: gold, silver, and bronze;
3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,
4 blue, purple, and crimson thread; finely-spun linen and goat hair;
4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
5 ram skins that have been tanned, and fine leather; acacia wood;
5 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
6 olive oil for the lamps; spices for the olive oil used in anointing and for the fragrant incense;
6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
7 and onyx stones and other gemstones to be used in making the ephod and breastpiece.
7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
8 They are to make me a sanctuary so I can live among them.
8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
9 You must make the Tabernacle and all its furnishings according to the design I'm going to show you.
9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
10 They are to make an Ark of acacia wood that measures two and a half cubits long by a cubit and a half wide by one and a half cubits high.
10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
11 Cover it with pure gold on the inside and the outside, and make a gold trim to go around it.
11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
12 Cast four gold rings and attach them to its four feet, two on one side and two on the other.
12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
13 Make poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold.
13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
14 Place the poles into the rings on the sides of the Ark, so it can be carried.
14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
15 The poles are to stay in the rings of the Ark; don't take them out.
15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.
16 Place inside the Ark the Testimony which I'm going to give you.
16 You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
17 You are to make an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long by a cubit and a half wide.
17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
18 Make two cherubim of hammered gold for the ends of the atonement cover,
18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
19 and put one cherub on each end. All of this is to be made from one piece of gold.
19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.
20 The cherubim are to be designed with spread wings pointing upward, covering the atonement cover. The cherubim are to be placed facing each another, looking down towards the atonement cover.
20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
21 Place the atonement cover on top of the Ark, and put the Testimony that I'm going to give you inside the Ark.
21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
22 I will meet with you there as arranged above the atonement cover, between the two cherubim that stand over the Ark of the Testimony, and I will talk with you about all the commands I will give the Israelites.
22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
23 Then you are to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long by a cubit wide by a cubit and a half high.
23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height one and a half cubits.
24 Cover it with pure gold and make a gold trim to go around it.
24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
25 Make a border around it the width of a hand and put a gold trim on the border.
25 You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
26 Make four gold rings for the table and attach them to the four corners of the table by the legs.
26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.
27 The rings are to be close to the border to hold the poles used to carry the table.
27 The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
28 Make the poles of acacia wood for carrying the table and cover them with gold.
28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
29 Make plates and dishes for the table, as well as pitchers and bowls for pouring out drink offerings. Make all of them out of pure gold.
29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls with which to pour out offerings. You shall make them of pure gold.
30 Place the Bread of the Presence on the table so it is always in my presence.
30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
31 Make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. The whole of it is to be made of one piece—its base, shaft, cups, buds, and flowers.
31 “You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
32 It is to have six branches coming out of the sides of the lampstand, three on each side.
32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side;
33 Have three cups shaped like almond flowers on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch. Each of six branches that come out will have three cups shaped like almond flowers, all complete with buds and petals.
33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand;
34 On the main shaft of the lampstand make four cups shaped like almond flowers, complete with buds and petals.
34 and in the lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
35 On the six branches that come out from the lampstand, place a bud under the first pair of branches, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair.
35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.
36 The buds and branches are to be made with the lampstand as one piece, hammered out of pure gold.
36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
37 Make seven lamps and place them on the lampstand so they can light up the area in front of it.
37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
38 The wick tongs and their trays are to be made of pure gold.
38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
39 The lampstand and all these utensils will require a talent of pure gold.
39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.
40 Be sure to make everything according to the design you were shown on the mountain.”
40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 2 Corinthians 9:7; Nehemiah 11:2; Ezra 2:68; Ezra 7:16; Ezra 1:6
- 3 Deuteronomy 8:9; Job 28:2
- 4 Revelation 19:8; Ezekiel 16:10; Genesis 41:42
- 5 Exodus 26:14–15; Exodus 36:20; Exodus 26:37–27:1; Exodus 26:26
- 6 Exodus 27:20; Exodus 25:37; Exodus 30:23–38; Exodus 40:24–25
- 7 Exodus 28:4; Exodus 28:6–30
- 8 2 Corinthians 6:16; Revelation 21:3; 1 Kings 6:13; Exodus 29:45; Hebrews 9:1–2
- 9 Exodus 25:40; Hebrews 8:5; Acts 7:44; Hebrews 9:9; 1 Chronicles 28:11–19
- 10 Hebrews 9:4; Exodus 37:1–3; Deuteronomy 10:1–3; Revelation 11:19; 2 Chronicles 8:11
- 11 Exodus 25:24; 1 Kings 6:20; Exodus 30:3; 2 Chronicles 3:4
- 12 Exodus 25:15; Exodus 37:5; Exodus 26:29; Exodus 25:26; Exodus 27:7
- 13 Exodus 37:4; Numbers 4:14; Numbers 4:11; Exodus 40:20; Numbers 4:6
- 15 1 Kings 8:8; 2 Chronicles 5:9
- 16 Deuteronomy 31:26; 1 Kings 8:9; Hebrews 9:4; Exodus 16:34; Exodus 27:21
- 17 Hebrews 9:5; Exodus 37:6; Romans 3:25; Hebrews 4:16; Exodus 40:20
- 18 Hebrews 9:5; Ezekiel 10:20; 1 Chronicles 28:18; Ezekiel 10:2; 1 Kings 8:6–7
- 20 1 Chronicles 28:18; 1 Kings 8:7; Hebrews 9:5; Colossians 2:10; Isaiah 6:1–5
- 21 Exodus 26:34; Romans 10:4; Exodus 25:16–17
- 22 Exodus 29:42–43; Numbers 7:89; Isaiah 37:16; Psalm 80:1; 2 Kings 19:15
- 23 Exodus 37:10–16; Hebrews 9:2; 2 Chronicles 4:8; 1 Kings 7:48; 1 Chronicles 28:16
- 24 Exodus 25:11; 1 Kings 6:20–22
- 25 Exodus 37:2; Exodus 30:3
- 27 Exodus 25:28; Exodus 25:14
- 28 Numbers 10:17; Exodus 25:27; Acts 9:15; Exodus 25:14
- 29 Numbers 4:7; Exodus 37:16; Revelation 3:20; Numbers 7:13; Ezra 1:9–11
- 30 Matthew 12:4; Leviticus 24:5–9; Exodus 39:36; 1 Samuel 21:6; 2 Chronicles 13:11
- 31 1 Kings 7:49; Zechariah 4:2; Exodus 37:17–24; Revelation 1:12; Hebrews 9:2
- 33 Zechariah 4:3; Numbers 17:4–8; Exodus 37:19–20; Jeremiah 1:11–12
- 36 2 Chronicles 9:15; Exodus 25:18; Numbers 8:4; 1 Kings 10:16–17
- 37 Numbers 8:2; Revelation 1:20–2:1; Exodus 27:21; 2 Chronicles 13:11; Leviticus 24:2–4
- 38 Isaiah 6:6; 2 Kings 25:14; Exodus 37:23; 2 Chronicles 4:21; Numbers 4:9
- 40 Exodus 26:30; Acts 7:44; Hebrews 8:5; Numbers 8:4; Exodus 25:9
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… taken care that the types were found in things more exactly correspondent and more holy; and, above all, in the case of the Ark of the Covenant, on account of which the whole tabernacle of witness was formed. Now it was constructed thus: its length was two cubits and a half, its breadth one cubit and a half, its height …
… all things," and again, "All things of God." The word of truth has, however, frequently used this term in the case of the material, as when it says "Thou shalt make an ark of incorruptible wood;" and "Thou shalt make the candlestick of pure gold;" and "The first man is of the earth, earthy;" and "Thou art formed out of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
The Cherubim, too, which o'ershadow the mercy seat, are they not the work of men's hands?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
… half, its breadth one cubit and a half, its height one cubit and a half; but such a number of cubits in no respect corresponds with their system, yet by it the type ought to have been, beyond everything else, clearly set forth. The mercy-seat also does in like manner not at all harmonize with their expositions.
The mercy-seat also does in like manner not at all harmonize with their expositions. Moreover, the table of shew-bread was two cubits in length, while its height was a cubit and a half.