Exodus 25:18–40

¹⁸And you will make two cherubim of gold; you will make them of hammered work at the two ends of the atonement cover. ¹⁹And make one cherub at one end^d and one cherub at the other end^e of the atonement cover; you will make the cherubim on its two ends. ²⁰And the cherubim will be with outspread wings above, covering with their wings over the atonement cover and facing each other;^f the faces of the cherubim will be toward the atonement cover. ²¹And you will put the atonement cover above onto the ark, and into the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you. ²²And I will meet you there, and I will speak with you from over the atonement cover, from between the two cherubim that are to be on the ark of the testimony—all that I will command you to the Israelites.^g

Instructions for Making a Table and a Lampstand

²³“And you will make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. ²⁴And you will overlay it with pure gold, and you will make for it a gold molding all around. ²⁵And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around. ²⁶And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners where its four legs^h are. ²⁷The rings will be near the rim as holdersⁱ for poles to carry the table. ²⁸And you will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried with them. ²⁹And you will make its plates and its ladles^j and its pitchers and its bowls with which libations will be poured; of pure gold you will make them. ³⁰And you will put on the table the bread of presence to be before me continually.

³¹“And you will make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand will be made of hammered work—its base and its branch,^k its cups, its buds, and its blossoms will be from it. ³²And six branches will be going out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side. ³³Three almond-flower cups will be on the one branch with a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups will be on the one branch with a bud and a blossom—likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand. ³⁴And on the lampstand will be four almond-flower cups, with its buds and its blossoms. ³⁵And a bud will be under the two branches that come from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, likewise for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. ³⁶Their buds and their branches will be from it, all of it one piece of pure gold hammered work. ³⁷And you will make its seven lamps, and its lamps will be set up, and it will give light in the space in front of it.^{l 38}And its snuffers and its fire pans will be pure gold. ³⁹It will be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these pieces of equipment. ⁴⁰And see and make all according to their pattern, which you were shown in the mountain.