Exodus 25:8-22

New King James Version

⁸And let them make Me a ^(A)sanctuary,^[a] that ^(B)I may dwell among them. ⁹According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.

The Ark of the Testimony^(C)

¹⁰^(D)“And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height. ¹¹And you shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and shall make on it a molding of ^(E)gold all around. ¹²You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners; two rings shall be on one side, and two rings on the other side. ¹³And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, that the ark may be carried by them. ¹⁵^(F)The poles shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it. ¹⁶And you shall put into the ark ^(G)the Testimony which I will give you.

¹⁷^(H)“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width. ¹⁸And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. ¹⁹Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat. ²⁰And ^(I)the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. ²¹^(J)You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and ^(K)in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. ²²And ^(L)there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from ^(M)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.