^3 (A)You shall put in it the ark of the Testimony, and ^[a]partition off the ark with the veil.

⁵ When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down ^(A)the covering veil and cover the ^(B)ark of the Testimony with it.

^12 (A)the ark and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the covering;

¹⁹ Then ^(A)the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of ^[a]His covenant was seen in His temple. And ^(B)there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, ^(C)and great hail.

^14 (A)He shall take some of the blood of the bull and ^(B)sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

²⁰ He took ^(A)the Testimony and put it into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark. ²¹ And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, ^(B)hung up the veil of the covering, and partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²² And ^(A)there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from ^(B)between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.

Making the Ark of the Testimony^(A)

37 Then ^(B)Bezalel made ^(C)the ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits was its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height. ² He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold all around it. ³ And he cast for it four rings of gold to be set in its four corners: 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 And he put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. ⁶ He also made the ^(D)mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits was its length and a cubit and a half its width. ⁷ He made two cherubim of beaten gold; he made them of one piece at the two ends of the mercy seat: ⁸ one cherub at one end on this side, and the other cherub at the other end on that side. He made the cherubim at the two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. ⁹ The cherubim spread out their wings above, and covered the ^(E)mercy seat with their wings. They faced one another; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

³⁵ And he made ^(A)a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen; it was worked with an artistic design of cherubim. ³⁶ He made for it four pillars of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silver for them.