¹ 国民尽都过了约但河，耶和华就对约书亚说：

² 你从民中要拣选十二个人，每支派一人，

³ 吩咐他们说：你们从这里，从约但河中、祭司脚站定的地方，取十二块石头带过去，放在你们今夜要住宿的地方。

⁴ 於是，约书亚将他从以色列人中所预备的那十二个人，每支派一人，都召了来。

⁵ 对他们说：你们下约但河中，过到耶和华─你们神的约柜前头，按着以色列人十二支派的数目，每人取一块石头扛在肩上。

⁶ 这些石头在你们中间可以作为证据。日後，你们的子孙问你们说：这些石头是甚麽意思？

⁷ 你们就对他们说：这是因为约但河的水在耶和华的约柜前断绝；约柜过约但河的时候，约但河的水就断绝了。这些石头要作以色列人永远的纪念。

⁸ 以色列人就照约书亚所吩咐的，按着以色列人支派的数目，从约但河中取了十二块石头，都遵耶和华所吩咐约书亚的行了。他们把石头带过去，到他们所住宿的地方，就放在那里。

⁹ 约书亚另把十二块石头立在约但河中，在抬约柜的祭司脚站立的地方；直到今日，那石头还在那里。

¹⁰ 抬约柜的祭司站在约但河中，等到耶和华晓谕约书亚吩咐百姓的事办完了，是照摩西所吩咐约书亚的一切话。於是百姓急速过去了。

¹¹ 众百姓尽都过了河，耶和华的约柜和祭司就在百姓面前过去。

¹² 流便人、迦得人、玛拿西半支派的人都照摩西所吩咐他们的，带着兵器在以色列人前头过去。

¹³ 约有四万人都准备打仗，在耶和华面前过去，到耶利哥的平原，等候上阵。

¹⁴ 当那日，耶和华使约书亚在以色列众人眼前尊大。在他平生的日子，百姓敬畏他，像从前敬畏摩西一样。

¹⁵ 耶和华晓谕约书亚说：

¹⁶ 你吩咐抬法柜的祭司从约但河里上来。

¹⁷ 约书亚就吩咐祭司说：你们从约但河里上来。

¹⁸ 抬耶和华约柜的祭司从约但河里上来，脚掌刚落旱地，约但河的水就流到原处，仍旧涨过两岸。

¹⁹ 正月初十日，百姓从约但河里上来，就在吉甲，在耶利哥的东边安营。

²⁰ 他们从约但河中取来的那十二块石头，约书亚就立在吉甲，

²¹ 对以色列人说：日後你们的子孙问他们的父亲说：这些石头是甚麽意思？

²² 你们就告诉他们说：以色列人曾走乾地过这约但河；

²³ 因为耶和华─你们的神在你们前面使约但河的水乾了，等着你们过来，就如耶和华─你们的神从前在我们前面使红海乾了，等着我们过来一样，

²⁴ 要使地上万民都知道，耶和华的手大有能力，也要使你们永远敬畏耶和华─你们的神。

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,

⁴ blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,

⁵ rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

⁶ oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

⁷ onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

⁸ Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

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 shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

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 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 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

¹⁴ You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

¹⁵ The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

¹⁶ You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

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 breadth.

¹⁸ You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

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

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 testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

²³ "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

²⁴ You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

²⁵ You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

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 shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

²⁸ You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

²⁹ You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.

³⁰ You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

³¹ "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

³² There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;

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 lampstand;

³⁴ and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

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 lampstand.

³⁶ Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

³⁷ You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

³⁸ Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.

³⁹ It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.

⁴⁰ See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.