Exodus 25:13-18

English Standard Version

¹³ You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴ And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. ¹⁵ The ^(A)poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it. ^16 (B)And you shall put into the ark the ^(C)testimony that I shall give you.

^17 (D)“You shall make a mercy seat^[a] of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. ¹⁸ And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of ^(E)hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.