^{10 Ref} "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.

^{11 Ref} You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it.

^{12 Ref} You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

^{13 Ref} You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

¹⁴ You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

^{15 Ref} The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

^{16 Ref} You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

^{17 Ref} You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

^{18 Ref} You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

¹⁹ Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

^{20 Ref} The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

^{21 Ref} You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.

^{22 Ref} There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.