12. You shall cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.
13. You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
14. You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.
15. The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.
16. You shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.
17. "You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
18. You shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat.
19. Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.
20. The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat.