1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, 2 'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they take for Me a heave-offering; from every man whose heart impelleth him ye do take My heave-offering. 3 'And this [is] the heave-offering which ye take from them; gold, and silver, and brass, 4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair], 5 and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood, 6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices, 7 shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate. 8 'And they have made for Me a sanctuary, and I have tabernacled in their midst; 9 according to all that which I am shewing thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so ye do make [it]. 10 'And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height; 11 and thou hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, within and without thou dost overlay it, and thou hast made on it a ring of gold round about. 12 'And thou hast cast for it four rings of gold, and hast put [them] on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side; 13 and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them [with] gold, 14 and hast brought the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark by them, 15 in the rings of the ark are the staves, they are not turned aside from it; 16 and thou hast put unto the ark the testimony which I give unto thee. 17 'And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth; 18 and thou hast made two cherubs of gold, beaten work dost thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat; 19 and make thou one cherub at the end on this side, and one cherub at the end on that; at the mercy-seat ye do make the cherubs on its two ends. 20 'And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces [are] one towards another — towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs. 21 'And thou hast put the mercy-seat on the ark above, and unto the ark thou dost put the testimony which I give unto thee; 22 and I have met with thee there, and have spoken with thee from off the mercy-seat (from between the two cherubs, which [are] on the ark of the testimony) all that which I command thee concerning the sons of Israel. 23 'And thou hast made a table of shittim wood, two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height, 24 and hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, and hast made for it a crown of gold round about, 25 and hast made for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and hast made a crown of gold to its border round about. 26 'And thou hast made to it four rings of gold, and hast put the rings on the four corners, which [are] to its four feet; 27 over-against the border are the rings for places for staves to bear the table; 28 and thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold, and the table hath been borne with them; 29 and thou hast made its dishes, and its bowls, and its covers, and its cups, with which they pour out; of pure gold thou dost make them; 30 and thou hast put on the table bread of the presence before Me continually. 31 'And thou hast made a candlestick of pure gold, of beaten work is the candlestick made; its base, and its branch, its calyxes, its knops, and its flowers are of the same; 32 and six branches are coming out of its sides, three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the second side; 33 three calyxes made like almonds in the one branch, a knop and a flower, and three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; so for the six branches which are coming out from the candlestick. 34 'And in the candlestick [are] four calyxes made like almonds, its knops and its flowers; 35 and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, [are] to the six branches which are coming out of the candlestick; 36 their knops and their branches are of the same, all of it one beaten work of pure gold; 37 and thou hast made its seven lamps, and [one] hath caused its lights to go up, and it hath given light over-against its front. 38 'And its snuffers and its snuff dishes [are] of pure gold; 39 of a talent of pure gold he doth make it, with all these vessels. 40 And see thou and do [them] by their pattern which thou art shewn in the mount.
Exodus · Young's Literal Translation
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
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- 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.