Sinai & The Law

`And this is the heave-offering which ye take from them; gold, and silver, and brass,

and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' hair ,

and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,

shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.

`And they have made for Me a sanctuary, and I have tabernacled in their midst;

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 .

`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;

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.

`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;

and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold,

and hast brought the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark by them,

in the rings of the ark are the staves, they are not turned aside from it;

and thou hast put unto the ark the testimony which I give unto thee.

`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;

and thou hast made two cherubs of gold, beaten work dost thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;

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.

`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.

`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;

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.

`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,

and hast overlaid it with pure gold, and hast made for it a crown of gold round about,

and hast made for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and hast made a crown of gold to its border round about.

`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;

over-against the border are the rings for places for staves to bear the table;