>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/ex/25?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#06619::c06619) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/exodus/25.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Exodus/25.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/exo/25/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, instructing him to gather offerings from the Israelites to build the Tabernacle and its sacred furnishings, as a dwelling place for God among His people. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>God asked Moses to tell the people to bring special gifts like gold and colorful cloth so they could make a beautiful place for Him to stay with them. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>God instructed Moses to collect offerings from the Israelites, including materials like gold, silver, and fine fabrics, to construct a sanctuary, known as the Tabernacle, so He could dwell among them. The chapter provides detailed instructions for building the Ark of the Covenant, the mercy seat, a table for the shewbread, and a golden candlestick, emphasizing the importance of following God's designs shown to Moses on the mountain. These sacred objects would serve as a place for God to communicate with Moses and guide the Israelites. > >#Gospel/Temple #Gospel/SacredOrdinances #Gospel/Revelation ###### 1 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ###### 2 2 Speak 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. ###### 3 3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, ###### 4 4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, ###### 5 5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood, ###### 6 6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, ###### 7 7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate. ###### 8 8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. ###### 9 9 According 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 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. ###### 11 11 And 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. ###### 12 12 And 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. ###### 13 13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. ###### 14 14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. ###### 15 15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. ###### 16 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. ###### 17 17 And 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. ###### 18 18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. ###### 19 19 And 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. ###### 20 20 And 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. ###### 21 21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. ###### 22 22 And 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 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. ###### 24 24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. ###### 25 25 And 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. ###### 26 26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. ###### 27 27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table. ###### 28 28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. ###### 29 29 And 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. ###### 30 30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway. ###### 31 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. ###### 32 32 And 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: ###### 33 33 Three 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. ###### 34 34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. ###### 35 35 And 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. ###### 36 36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold. ###### 37 37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. ###### 38 38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold. ###### 39 39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. ###### 40 40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.