Instructions on the Mountain: The Offerings

25 1-9 God spoke to Moses: “Tell the Israelites that they are to set aside offerings for me. Receive the offerings from everyone who is willing to give. These are the offerings I want you to receive from them: gold, silver, bronze; blue, purple, and scarlet material; fine linen; goats’ hair; tanned rams’ skins; dolphin skins; acacia wood; lamp oil; spices for anointing oils and for fragrant incense; onyx stones and other stones for setting in the Ephod and the Breastpiece. Let them construct a Sanctuary for me so that I can live among them. You are to construct it following the plans I’ve given you, the design for The Dwelling and the design for all its furnishings.

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These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze; blue, purple and scarlet yarn(A) and fine linen; goat hair; ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather[a];(B) acacia wood;(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 25:5 Possibly the hides of large aquatic mammals