Exodus 25:10-22 - Instructions For Making The Ark Of The Covenant

¹⁰ "They are to make an ark of acacia wood -- its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches. ¹¹ You are to overlay it with pure gold -- both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it. ¹² You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. ¹³ You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold, ¹⁴ and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. ¹⁵ The poles must remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it. ¹⁶ You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you. ¹⁷ "You are to make an atonement lid of pure gold; its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches. ¹⁸ You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid. ¹⁹ Make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end; from the atonement lid you are to make the cherubim on the two ends. ²⁰ The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the atonement lid. ²¹ You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you. ²² I will meet with you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.