Exodus 25:10-22

¹⁰“Have them make an ark out of acacia wood. It must be a chest three feet nine inches long and two feet three inches wide and high. ¹¹Cover it inside and outside with pure gold. Put a strip of gold around it. ¹²Make four gold rings for it. Join them to its four bottom corners. Put two rings on one side and two rings on the other. ¹³Then make poles out of acacia wood. Cover them with gold. ¹⁴Put the poles through the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it. ¹⁵The poles must remain in the rings of the ark. Do not remove them. ¹⁶I will give you the tablets of the covenant law. When I do, put them into the ark. ¹⁷“Make its cover out of pure gold. The cover is the place where sin will be paid for. Make it three feet nine inches long and two feet three inches wide. ¹⁸Make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover. ¹⁹Put one of the cherubim on each end of it. Make the cherubim part of the cover itself. ²⁰They must have their wings spread up over the cover. The cherubim must face each other and look toward the cover. ²¹Place the cover on top of the ark. I will give you the tablets of the covenant law. Put them in the ark. ²²The ark is where the tablets of the covenant law are kept. I will meet with you above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark. There I will give you all my commands for the Israelites.