10 »Make a Box out of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.
11 »Cover it with pure gold inside and out and put a gold border all around it.
12 »Make four carrying rings of gold for it and attach them to its four legs, with two rings on each side.
13 »Make two poles of acacia wood. Cover them with gold.
14 »Put them through the rings. Poles can be used to carry the chest.
15 »Do not ever remove the poles from the rings.
16 »I will give you the Ten Commandments written on two flat tablets. Put them inside the chest.
17 »Cover the lid of the chest mercy seat with pure gold.
18 »Hammer out two winged cherubs of pure gold and fasten them to the lid at the ends of the chest.
19 »Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim of one piece with the chest at its two ends.
20 »The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the chest with their wings and facing one another. The faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the chest.
21 »After you put into the ark the words of my covenant that I will give you, place the throne of mercy on top.