1 A seguir Bezalel fez a arca. Foi construída em madeira de acácia, com um metro e 25 centímetros de comprimento, 75 centímetros de largura e 75 centímetros de altura.
2 Foi toda revestida de ouro puro tanto no interior como por fora, e ficou com uma espécie de coroa de ouro em toda a volta.
3 Prenderam-se-lhe quatro argolas de ouro aos seus cantos, dando duas para cada lado.
4 Depois fez varas de madeira de acácia e revestiu-as de ouro, e pôs estas argolas nos lados da arca a fim de poder transportá-la.
6 Fez uma tampa de ouro puro chamada lugar do misericórdia; tinha 125 centímetros de comprimento, por 75 de largura. Fez dois querubins de ouro batido e colocou-os nas extremidades da tampa de ouro. Estes anjos foram moldados de forma a fazerem uma só peça conjuntamente com a tampa. Os querubins estavam voltados um para o outro, com as asas abertas, cobrindo o lugar de misericórdia e olhando para este.
10 Seguidamente fez a mesa de madeira de acácia, com um metro de comprimento, 50 centímetros de largura e 75 de altura. Foi revestida de ouro puro, com uma coroa de ouro à volta do seu tampo. Também construiu uma moldura de 10 centímetros de altura à volta da mesa, com uma coroa de ouro em redor da própria moldura. Depois fundiu quatro argolas de ouro e colocou-as nas quatro pernas da mesa, perto da moldura, para poder enfiar nelas as varas de transporte. Após isso, empregando ouro puro, fez as bacias, as tijelas, os pratos e as colheres que deviam estar sobre a mesa.
17 Então foi a vez do castiçal, empregando novamente ouro puro batido. A sua base, o pé, os ramos e a decoração de maçãs e flores de amendoeira, tudo foi feito de uma só peça. O castiçal ficou com seis hastes, três para cada lado. Cada uma das hastes foi decorada com idênticas flores gravadas. Igualmente o pé, no meio do castiçal, foi decorado com flores de amendoeira, uma flor sob a saída de cada um dos três pares de hastes laterais e uma outra na extremidade; ao todo quatro flores na haste central. Tanto a decoração como os ramos foram feitos de uma só peça, de ouro batido. Depois fez as sete lâmpadas nas extremidades das hastes, assim como os espevitadores e os apagadores. O castiçal pesava 34 quilos; e todo ele era de ouro puro.
25 O altar do incenso foi feito de madeira de acácia. Era quadrado, com 50 centímetros de lado e um metro de altura, e com os seus chifres de cada canto feitos de uma só peça com o próprio altar. Revestiu-o de ouro puro e pôs-lhe uma moldura em ouro toda em volta da parte de cima. Foram colocadas duas argolas de cada lado, abaixo da moldura, para nelas enfiar as varas a fim de carregar o altar. Também estas varas eram de madeira de acácia, revestidas de ouro.
29 Fez então o óleo sagrado para ungir os sacerdotes, com especiarias aromáticas; e o incenso puro, usando também as técnicas dos mais hábeis perfumistas.
1 And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the width of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
2 and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet of it; even two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
4 And he made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
5 And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
6 And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half [was] its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
7 And he made two cherubim of gold; of beaten work he made them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;
8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end: of one piece with the mercy-seat he made the cherubim at the two ends of it.
9 And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat were the faces of the cherubim.
10 And he made the table of acacia wood: two cubits [was] its length, and a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height:
11 and he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.
12 And he made to it a border of a handbreadth round about, and made a golden crown to its border round about.
13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were on the four feet of it.
14 Close by the border were the rings, the places for the poles to bear the table.
15 And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
16 And he made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, and its spoons, and its bowls, and its flagons, with which to pour out, of pure gold.
17 And he made the lampstand of pure gold: of beaten work he made the lampstand, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, it knops, and its flowers, were of one piece with it:
18 and there were six branches going out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it:
19 three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
20 And in the lampstand were four cups made like almond-blossoms, its knops, and its flowers;
21 and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
22 Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
23 And he made its lamps, seven, and its snuffers, and its snuffdishes, of pure gold.
24 Of a talent of pure gold he made it, and all its vessels.
25 And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit was its length, and a cubit its width, foursquare; and two cubits was its height; its horns were of one piece with it.
26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round about, and the horns of it: and he made to it a crown of gold round about.
27 And he made for it two golden rings under its crown, on the two ribs of it, on the two sides of it, for places for poles with which to bear it.
28 And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.