Thematic Bible




Exodus 25:1 (show verse)

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Exodus 25:2 (show verse)

“Tell the children of Israel to take an offering for Me. From every man whose heart moves him [to give willingly] you shall take My offering.

Exodus 25:3 (show verse)

This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

Exodus 25:4 (show verse)

blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, fine twisted linen, goats’ hair,

Exodus 25:5 (show verse)

rams’ skins dyed red, porpoise skins, acacia wood,

Exodus 25:6 (show verse)

[olive] oil for lighting, balsam for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

Exodus 25:7 (show verse)

onyx stones and setting stones for the [priest’s] ephod and for the breastpiece.

Exodus 25:8 (show verse)

Have them build a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:9 (show verse)

You shall construct it in accordance with everything that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture.

Exodus 25:10 (show verse)

“They 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.

Exodus 25:11 (show verse)

You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, overlay it inside and out, and you shall make a gold border (frame) around its top.

Exodus 25:12 (show verse)

You shall cast four gold rings for it and attach them to the four feet, two rings on either side.

Exodus 25:13 (show verse)

You shall make [carrying] poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold,

Exodus 25:14 (show verse)

and put the poles through the rings on the sides of the ark, by which to carry it.

Exodus 25:15 (show verse)

The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it [so that the ark itself need not be touched].

Exodus 25:16 (show verse)

You shall put into the ark the Testimony (Ten Commandments) which I will give you.

Exodus 25:17 (show verse)

“You shall make a mercy seat (cover) of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

Exodus 25:18 (show verse)

You shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold at the two ends of the mercy seat.

Exodus 25:19 (show verse)

Make one cherub at each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.

Exodus 25:20 (show verse)

The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing each other. The faces of the cherubim are to be looking downward toward the mercy seat.

Exodus 25:21 (show verse)

You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony which I will give you.

Exodus 25:22 (show verse)

There I will meet with you; from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, I will speak [intimately] with you regarding every commandment that I will give you for the Israelites.

Exodus 25:23 (show verse)

“You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

Exodus 25:24 (show verse)

You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a border of gold around the top of it.

Exodus 25:25 (show verse)

You shall make a rim of a hand width around it; you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

Exodus 25:26 (show verse)

You shall make four gold rings for it and fasten them at the four corners that are on the table’s four legs.

Exodus 25:27 (show verse)

The rings shall be close against the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.

Exodus 25:28 (show verse)

You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

Exodus 25:29 (show verse)

You shall make its plates [for the showbread] and its cups [for incense] and its pitchers and bowls for sacrificial drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

Exodus 25:30 (show verse)

You shall set the bread of the Presence (showbread) on the table before Me at all times.

Exodus 25:31 (show verse)

“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand and its base and its shaft shall be made of hammered work; its cups, its calyxes and its flowers shall be all of one piece with it.

Exodus 25:32 (show verse)

Six branches shall come out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side [the shaft being the seventh branch].

Exodus 25:33 (show verse)

Three cups shall be made like almond blossoms, each with a calyx and a flower on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms on the other branch with a calyx and a flower—so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand;

Exodus 25:34 (show verse)

and in the [center shaft of the] lampstand [you shall make] four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and their flowers.

Exodus 25:35 (show verse)

A calyx shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a calyx under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a calyx under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

Exodus 25:36 (show verse)

Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

Exodus 25:37 (show verse)

Then you shall make the lamps [of the lampstand] seven in number [with one lamp at the top of the shaft]. The priests shall set up its seven lamps so that they will light the space in front of it.

Exodus 25:38 (show verse)

Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold.

Exodus 25:39 (show verse)

It shall be made from a talent (50-80 lbs.) of pure gold, including all these utensils.

Exodus 25:40 (show verse)

See that you make them [exactly] after their pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.