The ark

10They shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

11You shall overlay it with pure gold; from the inside and from the outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make on it a gold molding all around.

12And you shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet: two rings on one side of it and two rings on its second side.

13You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

14And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.

15The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.

16And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I will give you.

17And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; its length shall be two cubits and a half, and its width a cubit and a half.

18And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them, at the two ends of the mercy seat.

19Make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end; from the mercy seat you shall make the cherubim on its two ends.

20And the cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall be one toward another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

21And you shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and into the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.

22And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, about all that I will command you for the sons of Israel.