Making the Ark (EXO 37:1-9)

[37:1] Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half was its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

[37:2] And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold around it.

[37:3] And he cast for it four rings of gold for its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side.

[37:4] And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold

[37:5] and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

[37:6] And he made a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

[37:7] And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat,

[37:8] one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends.

[37:9] The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.