- 1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- 2Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
- 3And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
- 4And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
- 5And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
- 6Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
- 7Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
- 8And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
- 9According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
- 10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
- 11And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
- 12And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
- 13And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
- 14And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
- 15The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
- 16And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
- 17And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
- 18And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
- 19And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
- 20And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
- 21And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
- 22And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
- 23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
- 24And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
- 25And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
- 26And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
- 27Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
- 28And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
- 29And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
- 30And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
- 31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
- 32And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
- 33Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
- 34And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
- 35And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
- 36Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
- 37And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
- 38And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
- 39Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
- 40And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
KING JAMES VERSION
EXODUS 25
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CHAPTER VISUAL
Exodus 25 — Willing offerings are received for a sanctuary, and Moses is shown the pattern of the ark, table, and lampstand.
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The furnishings appear as a revealed design rather than completed objects, preserving the chapter’s anticipatory setting. The cherubim are decorative sanctuary figures, and God is not depicted bodily.
Scripture basis: Exodus 25:1–40King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom
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Matthew 24:1–2 · Mark 13:1–2 · Luke 21:5–6
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCECult & worship
5th century AD
Sepphoris Synagogue Mosaic
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Genesis 22:1–19 · Exodus 25:10–40 · Numbers 7:1–17
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCECult & worship
approximately 5th-6th century AD, commonly dated to the 6th century
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Genesis 1:14–18 · Exodus 25:31–40 · Joshua 16:7
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEArchitecture
late 4th-6th century AD, with multiple building phases
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Exodus 25:31–40 · Deuteronomy 6:4–9 · Acts 19:8–10
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEArchitecture
2nd-4th centuries AD, followed by a Christian basilica in the late 4th or early 5th century
The Synagogue Basilica at Stobi
Successive synagogues beneath a later Christian basilica at Stobi, together with Polycharmos's long Greek dedication, preserve the architecture, patronage, offices, and changing religious landscape of a Jewish community in Roman Macedonia.
Exodus 25:31–40 · Deuteronomy 6:4–9 · Acts 16:9–15
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEBurial
approximately 4th-6th centuries AD, with some later cemetery inscriptions
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Exodus 25:31–40 · Acts 28:11–16 · Romans 16:3–16
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