13. You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold,
14. And put the poles through the rings on the ark's sides, by which to carry it.
15. The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it [that the ark be not touched].
16. And you shall put inside the ark the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] which I will give you.
17. And you shall make a mercy seat (a covering) of pure gold, two cubits and a half long and a cubit and a half wide.
18. And you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat.