Study Desk

"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.

"You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

"You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their memorial stones in pieces.

"And you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

"You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

"They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it is certain to be a snare to you."

Then He said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance.

"Moses alone, however, shall approach the LORD, but they shall not approach, nor shall the people come up with him."

"Tell the sons of Israel to take a contribution for Me; from everyone whose heart moves him you shall take My contribution.

"According to all that I am going to show you as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, so you shall construct it.

"Now they shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

"You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

"You shall also cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet; two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

"And you shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

"You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.

"The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.

"You shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

"And you shall make an atoning cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

"You shall make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the atoning cover.

"Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the atoning cover at its two ends.