9. And you shall make it according to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle or dwelling and the pattern of all the furniture of it.
10. They shall make an ark of acacia wood: two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
11. You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold crown, a rim or border, around its top.
12. You shall cast four gold rings and attach them to the four lower corners of it, two rings on either side.
13. You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold,
14. And put the poles through the rings on the ark's sides, by which to carry it.
15. The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it [that the ark be not touched].
16. And you shall put inside the ark the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] which I will give you.
17. And you shall make a mercy seat (a covering) of pure gold, two cubits and a half long and a cubit and a half wide.