9463. 'And this is the offering which you shall take from them' means that those requirements are altogether indispensable. This is clear from the meaning of 'offering' as requirements, as above in 9459, 9461. The reason why it means that they are altogether indispensable is that the word 'offering' is now used for a third time, and such repetition implies that they are a necessity.

9459. 'Let them take for Me an offering' means the interior things of worship which were going to be represented, which are the real requirements. This is clear from the meaning of 'an offering' as the requirements for worship, at this point the interior things which were going to be represented. For by the materials that were gathered together for the tent, tables, and lampstand, also Aaron's garments, that is, by the gold, silver, bronze, violet, purple, twice-dyed scarlet, fine linen, wool of she-goats, and many others, those interior things were meant, as is clear from the meaning of them dealt with in paragraphs below.