²⁰ And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.

⁵ And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;

¹⁰ And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.

¹⁵ And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House.

¹⁶ Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.

¹⁷ Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House.

¹⁸ These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side,

¹⁹ With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.

²⁰ And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north,

²¹ With their forty silver bases, two under every board.

²² And six boards for the back of the House on the west,

²³ With two boards for the angles of the House at the back.

²⁴ The two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming the two angles.

²⁵ So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board.

²⁶ And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the one side,

²⁷ And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the west side of the House at the back.

²⁸ And the middle rod is to go through the rings of all the boards from end to end.

²⁹ And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold.

¹⁸ Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places;

¹⁹ Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders.

¹ Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

³ So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands.