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"And the cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the atoning cover with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the atoning cover.

"Then you shall put the atoning cover on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you.

"You shall also make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

"You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.

"And you shall make for it a rim of a hand width around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

"You shall also make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four legs.

"The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

"And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.

"You shall also make its dishes, its pans, its jars, and its libation bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

"And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me continually.

"Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base and its shaft, are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its bulbs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

"Six branches shall go out from its sides; three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side.

"Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the other branch, a bulb and a flower—the same for six branches going out from the lampstand;

"A bulb shall be 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.

"Their bulbs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

"Then you shall make its lamps seven in number; and they shall mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it.

"Its tongs and its trays shall be of pure gold.

"It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.

"Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and violet, purple, and scarlet material; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer.

"The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have the same measurements.