1. Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its width a cubit and a half, and its height a cubit and a half.
2. He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all around.
3. He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side of it.
4. He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
5. He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
6. He made the mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
7. He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered metal on the two ends of the mercy seat: