---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Exodus from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 25
verse_count: 40
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Exodus, chap. 25, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Exodus 25

*The tabernacle, mercy seat, cherubim, table, and candlestick.*

**1** And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
**2** Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering; of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
**3** And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
**4** And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
**5** And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
**6** Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
**7** Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
**8** And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
**9** According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. 1 O
**10** And they shall make an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
**11** And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
**12** And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
**13** And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
**14** And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
**15** The staves shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.
**16** And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
**17** And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
**18** And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
**19** And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end; even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof.
**20** And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another: toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
**21** And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
**22** And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
**23** Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood; two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
**24** And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
**25** And thou shalt make unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
**26** And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
**27** Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
**28** And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
**29** And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal; of pure gold shalt thou make them.
**30** And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before me always.
**31** And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold; of beaten work shall the candlestick be made; his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers shall be of the same.
**32** And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side;
**33** Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower; so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
**34** And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
**35** And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
**36** Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
**37** And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof; and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
**38** And the tongs thereof, and the snuff-dishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
**39** Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
**40** And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount.