Exodus 25:11-24

11You shall 1overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding 2around it. 12You shall cast four gold rings for it and 3fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it. 13You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them. 15The 4poles shall 5remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it. 16You shall 6put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

17“You shall 7make a 8mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half 9cubits 10long and one and a half cubits 11wide. 18You shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work 12at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19Make one cherub 13at one end and one cherub 14at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends. 2015The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and 16facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat. 2117You shall put the mercy seat 18on top of the ark, and 19in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you. 2220There I will meet with you; and from above the mercy seat, from 21between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel.

23“22You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits 23long and one cubit 24wide and one and a half cubits 25high. 24You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold 26border around it.