This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord.

“They shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, and its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits;

Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

He made a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

The overlapping part that is left over in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle.