³³ You shall hang the curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the covenant in there, within the curtain, and the curtain shall separate for you the holy place from the most holy place.^(A)

² For a tent^[a] was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence;^[b] this is called the holy place.^{(A) 3} Behind the second curtain was a tent^[c] called the holy of holies.^(B)

² The Lord said to Moses:

“Tell your brother Aaron not to come just at any time into the sanctuary inside the curtain before the cover that is upon the ark, or he will die, for I appear in the cloud upon the cover.^(A)

²¹ and he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the curtain for screening and screened the ark of the covenant as the Lord had commanded Moses.^(A)

¹⁶ You shall put the covenant that I am giving you into the ark.^(A)

⁷ Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. ⁸ For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles. ⁹ The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place^[a] in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside; they are there to this day.^{(A) 10} There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant^[b] with the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt.^(B)

¹⁰ And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of the Lord,^(A)

⁶ Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.^(A)

³⁶ He made for it four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver.

¹⁰ its twenty pillars and their twenty bases shall be of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.^(A)