Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Exodus 25:11-24-25 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

11. Cover it inside and out with pure gold and put a gold edging around the lid.

12. Make four gold rings and fasten one of them to each of the four legs of the chest.

13. Make two poles of acacia wood. Cover them with gold

14. and put them through the rings, so the chest can be carried by the poles.

15. Don't ever remove the poles from the rings.

16. When I give you the Ten Commandments written on two flat stones, put them inside the chest.

17. Cover the lid of the chest with pure gold.

18-19. Then hammer out two winged creatures of pure gold and fasten them to the lid at the ends of the chest.

20. The creatures must face each other with their wings spread over the chest.

21. Inside it place the two flat stones with the Ten Commandments and put the gold lid on top of the chest.

22. I will meet you there between the two creatures and tell you what my people must do and what they must not do.

23. Make a table of acacia wood eighty-eight centimetres long, forty-four centimetres wide, and sixty-six centimetres high.

24-25. Cover it with pure gold and put a gold edging around it with a border seventy-five millimetres wide.