³ and I make an ark of shittim wood, and grave two tables of stone like the first, and go up to the mount, and the two tables in my hand.

⁴ And he heweth two tables of stone like the first, and Moses riseth early in the morning, and goeth up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah commanded him, and he taketh in his hand two tables of stone.

⁵ and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

¹⁰ `And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;

¹ And Bezaleel maketh the ark of shittim wood, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;

² and he overlayeth it with pure gold within and without, and maketh for it a wreath of gold round about;

³ and he casteth for it four rings of gold, on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side;

⁴ and he maketh staves of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with gold,

⁵ and he bringeth in the staves into the rings, by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

⁶ And he maketh a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

⁷ and he maketh two cherubs of gold, of beaten work he hath made them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;

⁸ one cherub at the end on this `side', and one cherub at the end on that, out of the mercy-seat he hath made the cherubs, at its two ends;

⁹ and the cherubs are spreading out wings on high, covering over the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces `are' one towards another; towards the mercy-seat have the faces of the cherubs been.

¹ `At that time hath Jehovah said unto me, Grave for thee two tables of stone, like the first, and come up unto Me, into the mount, and thou hast made for thee an ark of wood,