Exodus 25:8-22

New International Reader's Version

⁸ “Have them make a sacred tent for me. I will live among them. ⁹ Make the holy tent and everything that belongs to it. Make them exactly like the pattern I will show you.

The Ark of the Covenant Law

¹⁰ “Have them make an ark out of acacia wood. It must be a chest 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 ark to carry it. ¹⁵ The poles must remain in the rings of the ark. Do not remove them. ¹⁶ I will give you the tablets of the covenant law. When I do, put them into the ark.

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. ¹⁹ Put one of the cherubim on each end of it. Make the cherubim part of the cover itself. ²⁰ They must have their wings spread up over the cover. The cherubim must face each other and look toward the cover. ²¹ Place the cover on top of the ark. I will give you the tablets of the covenant law. Put them in the ark. ²² The ark is where the tablets of the covenant law are kept. I will meet with you above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark. There I will give you all my commands for the Israelites.