10. "Have them make a chest out of acacia wood. Make it three feet nine inches long and two feet three inches wide and high.
11. Cover it inside and outside with pure gold. Put a strip of gold around it.
12. "Make four gold rings for it. Join them to its four bottom corners. Put two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
13. "Then make poles out of acacia wood. Cover them with gold.
14. Put the poles through the rings on the sides of the chest to carry it.
15. The poles must remain in the rings of the chest. Do not remove them.
16. I will give you the tablets of the covenant. When I do, put them into the chest.
17. "Make its cover out of pure gold. The cover is the place where sin will be paid for. Make it three feet nine inches long and two feet three inches wide.
18. "Make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.