5 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
6 He made the mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
7 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered metal on the two ends of the mercy seat:
8 one cherub on one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends.
9 The cherubim spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other. The faces of the cherubim were looking toward the mercy seat.
10 He made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long and a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.
11 And he overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding for it all around.