Betzalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and one-half amohs long, one and one-half amohs wide, and one and one-half amohs high.

He covered it with pure gold from inside and out. He made for it a golden crown-like rim around (its top).

He cast four gold rings on its (the ark’s) four corners, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

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

He placed the poles in the rings on the sides of the ark, so that the ark can be carried with them.

He made a cover (for the ark) of pure gold, two and one-half amohs long, and one and one-half amohs wide.

He made two golden Cherubim. He hammered them out of the two ends of the (ark) cover.

One Cherub out of one end [side], and one Cherub out of the other end [side]. From the (same piece of gold as the) cover itself, he made the Cherubim on its two ends [sides].

The Cherubim had their wings spread upward, sheltering the cover with their wings, and they faced one another, the Cherubim’s faces were (inclined) toward the cover.

He made a table out of acacia wood, two amohs long, one amoh wide, and one and one-half amohs high.

He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a crown-like rim around it.

He made a ledge of a tefach [high] around (the table), and he made a gold crown-like rim around the ledge.

He cast for it (the table) four gold rings, and placed the rings on the four corners that are on its four legs.

The rings were against the ledge as houses (receptacles) for the poles with which to carry the table.

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

He made the vessels that were on the table, its dishes (bread shapes), its spoons (incense bowls), its supports, and its half-hollow tubes by which they (the breads) are covered, out of pure gold.

He made the menorah (out) of pure gold. The menorah was made by hammering (its form out of a solid piece of gold). Its base, its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers were of it (the same piece of gold).

Six branches extended from its sides, three branches of the menorah from one of its sides, and three branches of the menorah from the second side.

Three cups were engraved in almond-shaped patterns, on one branch with a knob and a flower, and three cups were engraved in almond-shaped patterns, on one branch with a knob and a flower. So was (the form) of each of the six branches that extended from (the shaft) of the menorah.

The (shaft of the) menorah had four cups, engraved in almond shaped patterns, with their knobs and their flowers.

There was a knob under the two branches extending from it, and a (second) knob under the (second) two branches extending from it, and a (third) knob under the (third) two branches extending from it. (This held true) for the six branches that extended from it (the menorah’s shaft).

Their knobs and their branches were made out of (the menorah) itself. It was all made of a single hammered work of pure gold.

He made seven lamps (for the menorah), and its tongs and its (ash) scoops, of pure gold.

He made it out of a kikar of pure gold, together with all its vessels.

He made the [spice] incense altar out of acacia wood, one amoh long and one amoh wide, it was square, and two amohs high. Its horn-like elevations were of one piece with it.

He overlaid it with pure gold, on its top, its walls all around, and its horn-like elevations. He made a gold crown-like rim all around it.

He made two gold rings for it under its crown-like rim on two of its corners, on its two opposite sides, to house the poles with which to carry it.

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

He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure perfumed incense, according to the work of the perfumer.