New International Version

Exodus 25:12-18 New International Version (NIV)

12. Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.

13. Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

14. Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.

15. The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed.

16. Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.

17. “Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

18. And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.