³ So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.

⁴ He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

⁵ rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

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

¹ Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

² He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it round about.

³ He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.

⁴ He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

⁵ He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

⁶ He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

⁷ He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work them, at the two ends of the mercy seat;

⁸ one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.

⁹ The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

¹ At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.