10They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits and a half, its width a cubit and a half, and its height a cubit and a half.11You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make a border of gold around it.12You shall cast four gold rings for it and place them on its four feet, and two rings on one side of it and two rings on the other side.13You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.14You shall insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them.15The poles shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it.16You shall place in the ark the testimony that I give you.17You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length shall be two cubits and a half, and its width a cubit and a half.18You shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them, from the two ends of the mercy seat.19Make one cherub from one end on this side and one cherub from the other end on that side; from the mercy seat you shall make the cherubim upon its two ends.20The cherubim shall spread their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall be toward each other; toward the mercy seat shall be the faces of the cherubim.21You shall set the mercy seat on the ark from above, and in the ark you shall place the testimony that I give you.22There I shall meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I shall speak with you about all that I command you for the children of Israel.