¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

² Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.

³ And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass;

⁴ And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;

⁵ And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;

⁶ Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling Oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

⁷ Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag.

⁸ And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.

⁹ Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.

¹⁰ And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.

¹¹ It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it

¹² And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other.

¹³ And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.

¹⁴ And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.

¹⁵ The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out.

¹⁶ Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you.

¹⁷ And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

¹⁸ And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold,

¹⁹ One at One end and One at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the cover.

²⁰ And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover.

²¹ And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you.

²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

²³ And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high,

²⁴ Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it;

²⁵ And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.

²⁶ And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table;

²⁷ The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table is to be lifted.

²⁸ Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table.

²⁹ And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold.

³⁰ And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

³¹ And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

³² It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other.

³³ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.

³⁴ And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower:

³⁵ And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it.

³⁶ The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold.

³⁷ Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it.

³⁸ And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best gold.

³⁹ A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.

⁴⁰ And see that you make them from the design which you saw on the mountain.

¹ Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].

² By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].

³ By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].

⁴ By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

⁵ By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].

⁶ By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].

⁷ By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].

⁸ By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.

⁹ The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.

¹⁰ For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst.

¹¹ [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

¹² It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

¹³ Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

¹⁴ They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

¹⁵ The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.

¹⁶ These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

¹⁷ The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

¹⁸ The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

¹⁹ Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

²⁰ All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.

²¹ The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.

²² Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.

²³ As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].

²⁴ By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].

²⁵ By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

²⁶ By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].

²⁷ By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

²⁸ By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

²⁹ This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

³⁰ These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;

³¹ and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

³² At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

³³ At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

³⁴ At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

³⁵ It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.