³ You shall put in it the ark of the covenant, and you shall screen the ark with the curtain.^(A)

⁵ “When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the covenant with it;

¹⁹ Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple, and there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.^(A)

¹² the ark with its poles, the cover, and the curtain for the screen;

¹⁴ He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the cover, and before the cover he shall sprinkle the blood with his finger seven times.^(A)

²⁰ He took the covenant and put it into the ark and put the poles on the ark and set the cover above the ark,^{(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.^(B)

Making the Ark of the Covenant

37 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; it was two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.^{(A) 2} He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside and made a molding of gold around it. ³ He cast for it four rings of gold for its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side.^{(B) 4} He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold ⁵ and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark. ⁶ He made a cover of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length and a cubit and a half its width.^{(C) 7} He made two cherubim of hammered gold; at the two ends of the cover he made them, ⁸ one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the cover he made the cherubim at its two ends. ⁹ The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the cover with their wings. They faced one another; the faces of the cherubim were turned toward the cover.

³⁵ He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns and fine twisted linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.^{(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.

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) 34} You shall put the cover on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.^(B)

The Curtain

³¹ “You shall make a curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns and of fine twisted linen; it shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it.^(A)