Thematic Bible




Exodus 37:1 (show verse)

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;

Exodus 37:2 (show verse)

and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all around.

Exodus 37:3 (show verse)

He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet; even two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

Exodus 37:4 (show verse)

He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 37:5 (show verse)

He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry it.

Exodus 37:6 (show verse)

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

Exodus 37:7 (show verse)

He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat;

Exodus 37:8 (show verse)

one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends.

Exodus 37:9 (show verse)

The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

Exodus 37:10 (show verse)

Then he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long and a cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.

Exodus 37:11 (show verse)

He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding for it all around.

Exodus 37:12 (show verse)

He made a rim for it of a handbreadth all around, and made a gold molding for its rim all around.

Exodus 37:13 (show verse)

He cast four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners that were on its four feet.

Exodus 37:14 (show verse)

Close by the rim were the rings, the holders for the poles to carry the table.

Exodus 37:15 (show verse)

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

Exodus 37:16 (show verse)

He made the utensils which were on the table, its dishes and its pans and its bowls and its jars, with which to pour out drink offerings, of pure gold.

Exodus 37:17 (show verse)

Then he made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work, its base and its shaft; its cups, its bulbs and its flowers were of one piece with it.

Exodus 37:18 (show verse)

There were six branches going out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand from the one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it;

Exodus 37:19 (show verse)

three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a bulb and a flower in one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a bulb and a flower in the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

Exodus 37:20 (show verse)

In the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers;

Exodus 37:21 (show verse)

and a bulb was under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

Exodus 37:22 (show verse)

Their bulbs and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was a single hammered work of pure gold.

Exodus 37:23 (show verse)

He made its seven lamps with its snuffers and its trays of pure gold.

Exodus 37:24 (show verse)

He made it and all its utensils from a talent of pure gold.

Exodus 37:25 (show verse)

Then he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit long and a cubit wide, square, and two cubits high; its horns were of one piece with it.

Exodus 37:26 (show verse)

He overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and he made a gold molding for it all around.

Exodus 37:27 (show verse)

He made two golden rings for it under its molding, on its two sides—on opposite sides—as holders for poles with which to carry it.

Exodus 37:28 (show verse)

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 37:29 (show verse)

And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer.