Real-Life Examples

Exodus 25:8-30

⁸ They should make me a sanctuary so I can be present among them. ⁹ You should follow the blueprints that I will show you for the dwelling and for all its equipment. ¹⁰ Have them make an acacia-wood chest. It should be forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. ¹¹ Cover it with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold molding all around it. ¹² Cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other. ¹³ Make acacia-wood poles and cover them with gold. ¹⁴ Then put the poles into the rings on the chest’s sides and use them to carry the chest. ¹⁵ The poles should stay in the chest’s rings. They shouldn’t be taken out of them. ¹⁶ Put the covenant document that I will give you into the chest. ¹⁷ Then make a cover of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide. ¹⁸ Make two winged heavenly creatures of hammered gold, one for each end of the cover. ¹⁹ Put one winged heavenly creature at one end and one winged heavenly creature at the other. Place the winged heavenly creatures at the cover’s two ends. ²⁰ The heavenly creatures should have their wings spread out above, shielding the cover with their wings. The winged heavenly creatures should face each other toward the cover’s center. ²¹ Put the gold cover on top of the chest and put the covenant document that I will give you inside the chest. ²² There I will meet with you. From there above the cover, from between the two winged heavenly creatures that are on top of the chest containing the covenant, I will deliver to you all that I command you concerning the Israelites. ²³ Make an acacia-wood table, three feet long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. ²⁴ Cover it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it. ²⁵ Make a frame around it that is four inches wide and a gold molding around the frame. ²⁶ Make four gold rings for the table. Fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. ²⁷ The rings that house the poles used for carrying the table should be close to the frame. ²⁸ Make the poles from acacia wood and cover them with gold. The table should be carried with these poles. ²⁹ Make its plates, dishes, jars, and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them of pure gold. ³⁰ Set the bread of the presence on the table so it is always in front of me.